String concatenation in MATLAB - Mini Project: Build & Apply

String concatenation

📖 Scenario: You are creating a simple program to combine parts of a person's full name from separate pieces.

🎯 Goal: Build a MATLAB script that concatenates first name, middle name, and last name into a full name string.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create variables for first name, middle name, and last name with exact given values

Create a variable for a space character to use as separator

Concatenate the three name parts with spaces in between using string concatenation

Display the full concatenated name using disp

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Combining parts of names or other text pieces is common in creating user-friendly displays, reports, or documents.

💼 Career

String concatenation is a basic skill useful in data processing, user interface design, and report generation in many programming jobs.

1

Create name parts variables

Create three string variables called firstName, middleName, and lastName with these exact values: 'John', 'Fitzgerald', and 'Kennedy' respectively.

MATLAB

% Create variables firstName, middleName, lastName with given values
% Your code here

Need a hint?

Use single quotes to create strings in MATLAB, for example: firstName = 'John';

2

Create space separator variable

Create a variable called space and assign it the string value of a single space character ' '.

MATLAB

firstName = 'John';
middleName = 'Fitzgerald';
lastName = 'Kennedy';
% Create variable space with a single space character
% Your code here

Need a hint?

Assign a single space character inside single quotes to the variable space.

3

Concatenate full name

Create a variable called fullName that concatenates firstName, space, middleName, space, and lastName using square brackets [] for string concatenation.

MATLAB

firstName = 'John';
middleName = 'Fitzgerald';
lastName = 'Kennedy';
space = ' ';
% Concatenate fullName using firstName, space, middleName, space, lastName
% Your code here

Need a hint?

Use square brackets to join strings with spaces: fullName = [firstName space middleName space lastName];

4

Display the full name

Use disp to display the value of the variable fullName.

MATLAB

firstName = 'John';
middleName = 'Fitzgerald';
lastName = 'Kennedy';
space = ' ';
fullName = [firstName space middleName space lastName];
% Display fullName
% Your code here

Need a hint?

Use disp(fullName) to print the full name to the screen.