why doesn't this code work when asking for the month of the date?

clear

clear all

clc

prompt = ['Please enter the starting date mm/dd/yyyy: \n' ... '(Ex. 07/27/2004 or 7/27/2004) \n\n'];

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% my intended input is 7/11/2016

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D = input(prompt,'s');

D

 [DayNumber] = weekday(D)

datestr(D)

m = month(D,'name')

[Adam]

What doesn't work about it? What was the input? Please give useful information if you want help with something.

[leon]

my intended input is 7/11/2016 but the error appears as:

Error using datenum (line 181) DATENUM failed.

Error in month (line 45) d = datenum(d,f);

Error in DataResearch (line 27) m = month(datestr(D),'name')

Caused by: Error using dtstr2dtnummx Failed to convert from text to date number.

[James Tursa]

What is f?

[leon]

its not in my script. it must be in the script of the month function.

Answer 1

[leon]

% I wanted to simply output the entire name of the month.

% I found another way to do it using m = datestr(D, 'mmmm')

% Which works fine