I need help please

I'm currently working on a project which has numbers assigned to each letter and i'm trying to create an array of each letter with its corresponding number below it so that when i try sorting the numbers from highest to lowest the letters get arranged as well but it's not working out for me here is my code

    % code
clc
clear
n=input('please enter the number of mud types you have       ');
for i=1:n
    x(i)=input('please enter the name of the mud in the order you want         ','s');
end
for j=1:n
    y(j)=input('please enter the number of the mud in the order you want         ');
end
A=[x;y]

[Jan]

What is your question? Assigning strings to "x(i)" must fail, because strings are vectors of type char, while x(i) is a scalar.

Answer 1

[Jan]

Using a cell string would allow to names with more than 1 character also.

n = input('please enter the number of mud types you have       ');
Str = cell(1, n);   % Pre-allocate!!!
y   = zeros(1, n);  % Pre-allocate!!!
for k = 1:n
    Str{k} = input('please enter the name of the mud in the order you want         ','s');
end
for k = 1:n
    y(k) = input('please enter the number of the mud in the order you want         ');
end

[ySorted, index] = sort(y, 'ascending');
StrSorted        = Str(index);

[Ahmed Ashraf]

dude you are amazing thank you so much