Prompt depending on another prompt

Hi. I need a first prompt input that will determinate the size of second prompt... Ex:

1st prompt: 'Number of costumers?' (input)

2nd prompt: 'Name of costumer 1:' 'Name of costumer 2:' and so on.

Any ideas? Thanks

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

This would work:

numcustomers = input('Number of customers ?');
customers = cell{1, numcustomers);
for customeridx = 1:numcustomers
   customers{customeridx} = input(sprintf('Name of customer %d:', customeridx), 's');
end

Note, however that I personally dislike prompts like this. I'd rather define a function that just take a cell array of customer names and leave it up to the user to generate that cell array, through prompt as above, or a gui, or by reading a file, or just typing the whole array at the command line.

Imagine if you have to run your script ten times, where each time just one name changes. You still have to enter all the names every time which can get a bit tedious.