How do i convert a sentence of string numbers into multiple doubles

Hello guys! Im kinda new with using the GUI for MATLAB, and I have a school project which needs a GUI that accepts transfer functions and plot their unit step plot (impulse(cs,rs)), to verify their Kp, Kv, Ka.

I'm trying to a GUI that accepts a transfer function but i dont know how to implement it. I decided that i'll use an editbox to input the numeric values for the transfer function's num and denom, using this:

x = str2double(get(handles.edit1, 'string'));
y = str2double(get(handles.edit2, 'string'));
set(handles.text2, 'string', x)
sys1=tf([x],poly([y]))

so far it accepts only one number in the numerator and denominator i wanted to be able to input something like this:

>> sys1=tf([20 20],poly([-4 -3]))
 
sys1 =
 
    20 s + 20
  --------------
  s^2 + 7 s + 12

[Janno Rhey Don]

update i tried using str2num used in at the numerator of the tf() and it worked but it somehow doesnt work on the denominator, any ideas on why this is the case?

FP = str2num(get(handles.edit1, 'string'));
ca = str2num(get(handles.edit3, 'string'));

sys1=tf(FP,poly(ca))
sys1a=feedback(sys1, 1, -1);
rs=tf([1], [1 0]);
cs= rs*sys1a;
axes(handles.axes1);
impulse(cs,rs);
grid on

ERROR message:

Error using str2num (line 35)

Input must be a character vector or string scalar.

Error in testing>pushbutton1_Callback (line 132)

ca = str2num(get(handles.edit3, 'string'));

Error in gui_mainfcn (line 95)

feval(varargin{:});

Error in testing (line 42)

gui_mainfcn(gui_State, varargin{:});

Error in

matlab.graphics.internal.figfile.FigFile/read>@(hObject,eventdata)testing('pushbutton1_Callback',hObject,eventdata,guidata(hObject))

Error while evaluating UIControl Callback.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You configured edit3 to have Max that is greater than 1, and the user entered more than one line.

The user did not just enter spaces between the numbers: they would have had to press return between numbers for this to have happened... and it cannot happen if Max is at its default 1.

(Exception: if you initialized edit3 String property to multiple cell entries, then if Max was set to 1, then it would have given a warning and refused to render the box for the control, but getting its String property would have returned the multiple cell entries. This is the exception to the rule that Max must have been greater than 1 and the user entered multiple lines -- the case where you yourself initialized the control that way.)

[Janno Rhey Don]

Hello thank you for the reply, i have now fixed the numerator denominator part and can know plot the whole function my problem at the moment is getting the limit s->0, of the transfer function that i defined using:

sysa=tf [ 20 20], poly[-4 -3]));

i tried using limit(sysa); but it said "Undefined function 'limit' for input arguments of

type 'tf'."