MATLAB: String manipulation with printing of characters

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The question is:

Write a script that will prompt the user to enter a word, and then print the first character in the word. For example, the output might look like this:

>> Enter a word: howdy

The word howdy starts with the letter ‘h’

How do you print the first character? I can do the:

>> word = input('Enter a word: ','s')

I do not know to display the first character.

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hint

fprintf('%s : ''%s''\n', t, t(1))

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MATLAB: Strings

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clear; clc;
   word = lower(input('Enter a word : ','s'));
   letter = input('Guess a character : ','s');
   stat = findstr(word,letter);
   if ~isempty(stat)
       for x = 1 : length(stat)
           fprintf('Character %c macthes with word %s in column %d\n',letter,word,stat(x));
       end
   else
       fprintf('Character %c no found in word %s\n',letter,word);
   end

MATLAB: New user question on fprintf

See the documentation on fprintf (and optionally for Formatting Strings).

In this line:

fprintf ('The character %d has no specified field width\n')

you need to use the correct format descriptor to print a character (see the fprintf documentation for that), and you need to tell the fprintf function the character you want it to print. Other than that, you are where you want to be with it.

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