Hello, I am having trouble making a script that will show a table of values

The assignment states: Make a script that stores the data in force and distance vectors and computes the corresponding work values (no input and no screen echo). Use disp() to generate a table showing all the force, distance, and work values with appropriate labeling and units. Use appropriate format strings to get the numbers to line up. The data is as shown:

Segment:         1      2     3     4     5
-------------------------------------------
Force(N):       400    550   700   500   600
Distance(m):     3     0.5   0.75  1.5    5

Here is what I try but I always get an error:

Force = [400 550 700 500 600];
Distance = [3 0.5 0.75 1.5 5];

disp(' ')
disp(['Segment        ',num2str(1:5,'%10i')    ])
disp(['Force, N       ',num2str(Force, '%10.0f')    ])
disp(['Distance, m    ',num2str(Distance, '%10.0f')    ])

disp('Segment', num2str(1:5))
disp([ char(8*ones(2,5), num2str([Force;Distance])  ])
disp(' ')

[Stephen23]

@Lizzy Murphy: this is not twitter, so I removed the unnecessary # from the tag. I also formatted your code correctly for you: in future you can do this simply by selecting the code text, the clicking the {} Code button, followed by an empty line.

"Here is what I try but I always get an error:"

What is the complete error message that you get?

[Lizzy Murphy]

Hey! I'm sorry about that, it's my first time asking a question on here haha! So after I entered in that data, I wanted to see if my script worked so I typed in the title of the script into the Command space(title of my script is untitled*) So I got this error:

>> untitled*
 untitled*
          ↑
Error: Expression or statement is incomplete or incorrect.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

When you run the code (by clicking the green Run triangle on the tool ribbon), it should ask you to save it to an m-file. Call it question5.m or whatever you want, instead of untitled. You can't have asterisks in the name of the function or the m-file. Then to run it again, you can click the green triangle again, or type the m-file name onto the command line (like you tried):

>> question5

[Lizzy Murphy]

Hey! I see what you mean, it did run, but when it did I came across another error message I think their might be something wrong with my code:

>> Question5

Segment        1         2         3         4         5
Force, N       400       550       700       500       600
Distance, m    3         0         1         2         5
Error using disp
Too many input arguments.

Error in Question5 (line 7)
disp('Segment', num2str(1:5))

[Lizzy Murphy]

Wait! I figured it out:

Force = [400 550 700 500 600];
Distance = [3 0.5 0.75 1.5 5];
disp(' ')
disp(['Segment          ',num2str(1:5,'%10i')     ])
disp('-----------------------------------------------------------')
disp(['Force (N)       ',num2str(Force, '%10.0f')   ])
disp(['Distance (m)     ',num2str(Distance, '%10.0f')    ])
disp(' ')

Then I got this when I ran it!

>> Question5

Segment          1         2         3         4         5
-----------------------------------------------------------
Force (N)       400       550       700       500       600
Distance (m)     3         0         1         2         5

Thank you for your help!!

[Image Analyst]

You might want to switch to using fprintf() instead of disp(), like I do. It gives you more flexibility, plus it's like most of the other languages out there, like C++ etc.