MATLAB: Why doesn’t this code work when asking for the month of the date

Question

clear

clear all

clc

prompt = ['Please enter the starting date mm/dd/yyyy: \n' … '(Ex. 07/27/2004 or 7/27/2004) \n\n'];

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% my intended input is 7/11/2016

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D = input(prompt,'s');

D

 [DayNumber] = weekday(D)
datestr(D)
m = month(D,'name')

Answer 1

% I wanted to simply output the entire name of the month.

% I found another way to do it using m = datestr(D, 'mmmm')

% Which works fine