MATLAB: Using a switch case to determine parking cost

Question

I'm wanting to create a function that houses a switch case code to determine the cost of parking based on predetermined rates. This is what I have so far, I am just needing to incorporate a commao nd that asks how long weeks, hours, days, and minutes the person parked. Any help is welcomed.

function parking_meter

%This function gives you the total cost of parking for airfair for 4 types of parking lots at Northwest Arkansas Regional the city you want to go to

cost=input('Enter the name of the lot you intend to park in. Short Term, Intermediate, Long Term, or Economy. Case sensitive. \n', 's')

switch cost

case 'Short Term'

time=input('input the duration you parked in minutes \n')

if 0<=time && time<=30

disp('Free for one day')

elseif 31<=time && time<=60

disp('$2.00')

elseif time >= 60

a_cost=time./60*1;

cost= 2+a_cost;

disp(cost) %How do you incorporate the daily maximum of $14

end

case 'Intermediate'

time=input('input the duration you parked in minutes \n')

if 0<=time && time<=30

disp('Free for one day')

elseif 31<=time && time<=60

disp('$2.00')

elseif time >= 60

a_cost=time./60*1;

cost= 2+a_cost;

disp(cost) %How do you incorporate the daily maximum of $8

case 'Long Term'

time=input('input the duration you parked in minutes \n')

if 0<=time && time<=30

disp('Free for one day')

elseif 31<=time && time<=60

disp('$2.00')

elseif time >= 60

a_cost=time./60*1;

cost= 2+a_cost;

disp(cost) %How do you incorporate the daily maximum of $7

case 'Economy'

time=input('input the duration you parked in minutes \n')

if 0<=time && time<=15

disp('Free')

elseif 16<=time && time<=60

disp('$2.00')

elseif time >= 60

a_cost=time./60*1;

cost= 2+a_cost;

disp(cost) %How do you incorporate the daily maximum of $5

otherwise

disp('Please select a valid parking lot.')

end

Answer 1

One option is to create an input dialog.

prompt = {'Number of weeks', 'Number of days', 'Hours', 'Minutes'};
dlgtitle = 'Enter estimated time';
dims = [1 45];
definput = {'0' '0' '0' '0'};
answer = inputdlg(prompt,dlgtitle,dims,definput); 

Then you can convert the output (string) to numeric:

timeVec = cellfun(@str2double, answer); 
timeVec(1) %number of weeks
timeVec(2) %number of days, etc.

Also, rather than using input(), you can better control the user's selection by using a list dialog.

[indx,tf] = listdlg('PromptString', 'Select the log you intend to park in', ...
    'SelectionMode', 'Single',... 
    'Name', 'Parking', ... 
    'ListSize', [160, 100], ...
    'ListString', {'Short Term', 'Intermediate', 'Long Term', 'Economy'});