Help with Loops and Switch cases and Mean

Write a program that prompts the User for if they would like to enter a real number. If yes, prompt the User for the real number. Continue to do this until the User enters “no” to the first question. After the User enters “no”, display the average of all the numbers entered.

This is what I have so far. I am confused and I need help. How do I keep asking a question for a string and keep repeating this process? Then how do I store all the numbers entered so I can find the mean?

Q=input('Would you like to enter a real number? (Yes or No)  ','s');
switch Q 
    case 'Yes'
        n=input('Enter a number:  ');
        Q=input('Would you like to enter a real number? (Yes or No)  ','s');
        while Q~= 'No'
            n=input('Enter a number:  ');
        end  
    case 'No'
        mean(,)
end

Answer 1

[prasanth s]

here is the code

Q=input('Would you like to enter a real number? (Yes or No)  ','s');
n=[];
switch Q 
    case 'Yes'
        count=1;
        while ~strcmpi(Q,'no')
            n(count,1)=input('Enter a number:  ');
            Q=input('Would you like to enter a real number? (Yes or No)  ','s');
            count=count+1;
        end
        mean_out=mean(n)
    case 'No'
end

Answer 2

[Turlough Hughes]

Hi Deriniece,

You could modify your code as follows:

Q='';
ii=1;
while ~strcmpi(Q,'No')
    Q=input('Would you like to enter a real number? (Yes or No)  ','s');
    switch Q
        case 'Yes'
            n(ii)=input('Enter a number: ');
            ii=ii+1;
        case 'No'
            disp(['The average input value is: ' num2str(mean(n))]);
    end
end

Although this requires the user to have a case sensitive input.

strcmpi and if else statements will allow for case-insensitive inputs such as 'Yes', 'yes' and 'YES'

Q='';
ii=1;
while(1)
    Q=input('Would you like to enter a real number? (Yes or No)  ','s');
    if strcmpi(Q,'Yes')
            n(ii)=input('Enter a number: ');
            ii=ii+1;
    else
        disp(['The average input value is: ' num2str(mean(n))]);
        break    
    end
end

You might also like to consider using the following functions: menu(), inptdlg().