I need to insert a changing string into an input statement

I am trying to iterate through all of the days of the week so that the input statement asks for 'Did the employee work on Monday of week 1' and then Tuesday and then Wednesday etc but sprintf and fprintf both dont work. Is there a funciton that allows you to put cells in a statement like that?

days = 'Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday';
days = split(days);
for weeknum = 1:2
    for daynum = 1:7
        letter = input(sprintf('Did the employee work on %d of week %d (y/n): ',days(daynum),weeknum),'s');

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You were quite close, but you missed an indexing and got a format wrong

days = 'Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday';
days = split(days);
for weeknum = 1:2
    for daynum = 1:7
        letter = input(sprintf('Did the employee work on %s of week %d (y/n): ', days{daynum}, weeknum),'s');
        %stuff
    end
end

But I would suggest

days = ["Monday" "Tuesday" "Wednesday" "Thursday" "Friday" "Saturday" "Sunday"];
for weeknum = 1:2
    for daynum = 1:length(days)
        prompt = "Did the employee work on " + days(daynum) + " of week " + weeknum + " (y/n): ";
        letter = input(prompt, 's');
        %stuff
    end
end

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

fprintf("You should use %%d to print integer values like: %d\n", 3)

You should use %d to print integer values like: 3

fprintf("You should use %%s to print text like: %s\n", "hello")

You should use %s to print text like: hello

fprintf("Using %%s to print integer values may not do what you expect: %s\n", 65)

Using %s to print integer values may not do what you expect: A

fprintf("Using %%d to print text data also may not do what you expect: %d\n", 'hello')

Using %d to print text data also may not do what you expect: 104
Using %d to print text data also may not do what you expect: 101
Using %d to print text data also may not do what you expect: 108
Using %d to print text data also may not do what you expect: 108
Using %d to print text data also may not do what you expect: 111

char(65)

ans = 'A'

double('hello')

ans = 1×5

104 101 108 108 111