Extract string form cell for sprintf

I have a string saved in a cell on excel, that I need to put onto my GUI using sprintf, but it says sprintf doesn't accept cell inputs, is there a way of extracting it from the cell and turning it into a string please? Thanks

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Example

a={'abc'}

use

sprintf([a{1} '%d'],5)

[Jamie Shelley]

Thanks, but I don't really understand the example so I can't make mine work - what does the 5 represent please? I just can't really get my head around the format of it to be able to adapt it to mine

[Jamie Shelley]

Actually I found a way around it using something similar to what you suggested (although I don't really undertsand the example still, but it gave me an idea that worked), Thank you!