How to make input values go into a matrix set?

How can make the script ask for you to type in two values and have it store those two values into a matrix?

example:

Point A = input(' Enter coordinate point location (x,y)

Command Window: >> 2 , 4

Then is stores those two as PointA = [ 2 , 4 ]

is there any way to do that without you having to enter " [ 2 , 4 ] " into the command window??

the only way i've figured out so far is doing this but it requires a seperate input for each value like ive shown below, is there a way to simplify?

d = input(" Enter X value for A \n");

e = input(" Enter Y value for A \n");

f = input(" Enter X value for B \n");

g = input(" Enter Y value for B \n");

h = input(" Enter X value for C \n");

i = input(" Enter Y value for C \n");

PointA = [ d , e ];

PointB = [ f , g ];

PointC = [ h , i ];

[Daniil Hart]

To clarify is there a way to turn

d = input(" Enter X value for A \n");

e = input(" Enter Y value for A \n");

into one step, so you could enter both d and e in a single step?

[Fangjun Jiang]

then you have to enter " [ 2 , 4 ] "

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

InputStr= input(' Enter coordinate point location (x,y)','s');

Command Window: >> 2 , 4

PointA=str2num(InputStr)

[Daniil Hart]

Thank you! That works, however I'm not sure if my prof will even accept that since we haven't covered that command yet.

[Fangjun Jiang]

Or a stretch code like this, no duplicated code, no fancy functions, no unnecessary typing for the user

%%
PointA=[0 0];
Msg={'x','y'};
for k=1:2
    PointA(k)=input(['Enter ',Msg{k},' value for A\n']);
end