how to choose the value?

i have some data. see below if true

       l1 = input('bus connection(choose one number from 1 to 30) = ');
                bus1 = [2 3];
                bus2 = [1 4 6 5];
                bus3 = [1 4];
                bus4 = [2 3 6 12];
                bus5 = [2 7];
                bus6 = [2 4 7 8 9 10 28];
                bus7 = [5 6];
                bus8 = [6 28];
                bus9 = [6 10 11];
                bus10 = [6 9 17 20 21 22];
                bus11 = 9;
                bus12 = [4 13 14 15 16];
                bus13 = 12;
                bus14 = [12 15];
                bus15 = [12 14 18 23];
                bus16 = [12 17];
                bus17 = [16 10];
                bus18 = [15 19];
                bus19 = [18 20];
                bus20 = [10 19];
                bus21 = [10 22];
                bus22 = [10 21 24];
                bus23 = [15 24];
                bus24 = [22 23 25];
                bus25 = [24 26 27];
                bus26 = 25;
                bus27 = [25 28 29 30];
                bus28 = [6 8 27];
                bus29 = [27 30];
                bus30 = [29 27];
end

when i press 1 it display bus1 matrix also when i press 2 it show bus2 matrix and bus3,bus4 etc., please anyone help me

[Thomas]

Goodwin, your code will not work as it is. I assume you want the user to input the number and then you want the corresponding bus matrix to show up..

Where do you compare what the user has entered to what you want to look up? you could do this by a number of 'if' statements (just think about it.. ) or use switch case..

[win]

thanks bro.........

Answer 1

[Thomas]

An example of how to use switch case: adapt for your particular case

busNum=input('Enter the bus number:');

switch busNum
    case 1
        disp('2 3')
    case 2
        disp('1 4 6 5')
end

Answer 2

[Jan]

Storing the values in different variables is a bad idea. Better use an array:

bus = {[2 3], ...
       [1 4 6 5], ...
       [1 4], ...
       etc. };
l1 = input('bus connection(choose one number from 1 to 30) = ');
disp(bus{l1});

[win]

thanks bro...... i learned something here. thanks for all of you

Answer 3

[Jurgen]

I suggest you concatenate the numerical input l1 with the string 'bus'. Then display the content with display(). E.g.

X = ['bus' l1];
display(X)

[Jurgen]

sorry I meant you also need to use eval() since X is a string.

[win]

i got the output like 'bus'. please rewrite the code. thanks for your reply.

[Jan]

@godwin tgn: No, it is your turn to rewrite the code.

Do not use EVAL. It results in more troubles than it solves.

[Jurgen]

Well it should work for this simple case?

[José-Luis]

It is not a matter of it working or not. Please look at this previous discussion.