How do i get user input into msgbox

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So for my engineering project, I am creating a text based adventure because it sounds fun. So the first prompt players are greeted with is as follows:
playername = inputdlg('Welcome to The RPG, what is your name?:', 'RPG', 1);
charactername= playername{1};
msgbox(sprintf('Nice to meet you %g', charactername))
So the player is suppose to enter their name, and then I'd like the message box to restate their name, but when I run the code this happens "Nice to meet you98Nice to meet you 101Nice to meet you 110"
Any ideas?
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Joseph Kain
Joseph Kain on 29 Feb 2016
I got it it, heres the code:
playername = inputdlg('Welcome to The RPG, what is your name?:', ' RPG', 1);
charactername= char(playername(1));
msgbox(sprintf('Nice to meet you %s\n', charactername))

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 29 Feb 2016
%s not %g

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