MATLAB: Going from switch case construct to loop

Question

I wrote a switch case script to convert characters to morse code. My script only accepts one letter or number at a time and displays it's morse code but now I am trying to figure out a wat for it to accept whole words and convert them. I began writing the loop but I am quite lost as I was only recently introduced to loops so I don't really know how to go about it. Any examples out there that could help? I would place my original script here but it's long so I don't think it's convenient.

Answer 1

put your current code in a function such as

function outputMorse=char2morse(inputeChar)

So this function gets a character and returns the morse code. Put your code that you have there. Name that file char2morse.m (or whatever you gonna name that function.

Then write another code

function outputMorse=string2morse(inputString)
validateattributes(inputString,{'char'},{'vector'})
for i=1:numel(inputString)
  outputMorse{i}=char2morse(inputString(i));
end

put this in a file called string2morse.m (or again whatever you want to name this function.)

Now you can call this function in other codes like:

morseCode=string2morse('SOS')

NOTE: Based on your code and output type you need to change the above code. But the general structure would be like that.