How can I make a function restart if a string input by a user is not terminated properly instead of it breaking the code with an error?

I am new to this software and I understand that this is an elementary question. An example of what I'm trying to figure out is this:

function [n]=name
n=input('Please enter your name')

If the user enters 'Name and leaves it like that, the code will break. How do I make it restart the function to take the input again?

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

You want the user to enter a name, not some code that's evaluated to generate a name. In that case, call the input function with the 's' flag as shown in the second section of the Description and the second Example on that function's documentation page.

[Andrew Williams]

Thank you this is what I needed.

Answer 2

[the cyclist]

One way would be to write the function with a while loop, something like this

function [n] = name
  n = '';
  while <some condition that you specify for _n_ goes here>
    n=input('Please enter your name')
  end
end

The while loop will keep repeating until the user puts something that meets your condition.

[Andrew Williams]

How would you set the condition to prevent someone from not putting an end apostrophe on their string input?