Contain outputs of function in one table(?)

Hi there,

I wrote a function, which gives out 10 numbers as a result. Right now, I am containing the outputs like this

[a,b,c,d,e,f] = function(Inputvariables) ... which is a bit annoying

Is there a better way to cope with a function that has a lot of output variables?

Any help is much appreciated! Christian

Answer 1

[Nobel Mondal]

1. If your output variables all have equal number of rows, you indeed can use a 'table' datatype.

doc table

2. Otherwise, you could create a struct and define the output parameters as fields of that. This would require declaring single output variable at the function definition.

3. You could also store them in a cell-array and pass as the single output argument. However, this would require some indexing wrt the variables. So I might turn up saving the parameter names along.

function cellOutput = myFunc(inputArgs)
  % Do something and collect outputs a, b, c
  cellOutput{1,1} = 'a';
  cellOutput{1,2} = a;
  % and so on...
end