Mode in matlab doesn't work.. can anybody help me with this....?

this is my code.. and i'm having a problem running mode for the array i made...

while (1)

    userNumber=input('\nPlease enter number:', 's');
    if(isempty(userNumber))
        break;
    end
    [myNumber, myStatus] = str2num(userNumber);
     if(myStatus == 0 || myNumber < -999999 || myNumber > 999999)
        continue;
    end
end
fprintf('\n\t\tThe mode of the given set of numbers is:');
x=str2num(myNumber);
MODE=mode(x)
pause;
clc;

[Andreas Goser]

Can you share what the problem is?

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

MATLAB's mode works just fine on my computer. Your code was not actually storing any of the values in each loop, and there is also a bit of confusion between string and numeric values. Try this instead:

userNumber = 0;
userVec = [];
while ~isempty(userNumber)
    userNumber = sscanf(input('Please enter an integer: ','s'),'%d');
    userVec = [userVec,userNumber]; %#ok<AGROW>
end
userVec = userVec(-1e6<userVec & userVec<1e6);
fprintf('The mode of the given set of numbers is %d\n', mode(userVec))

[Glenn Macion]

thank you sir... this helps me a lot.... no wonder it didn't work. it did not store the values at all. thank you for your answer. =D

[John D'Errico]

But more than that, as Stephen points out, you cannot take the mode of a string, and have it mean something useful in terms of numbers in that string. For example,

mode('antidisestablishmentarianism')
ans =
i

The mode is the letter i. So I suppose if you are looking for the most common digit in the decimal representation of a number, mode would help there.