Insufficient number of outputs from right hand side of equal sign to satisfy assignment.

I want to assign an array of numbers to a corresponding list name. Or in another word, I want each element of the left array to be assigned to a variable name on the right. The number of element in both arrays are the same.

I am new in Matlab. I dont know why I get this error. Any help would be very appriciated.

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CEST = [2022,10, 11, 2, 0, 0]

UTC = CEST-[0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0]

[yyyy, mm, dd, hour, minute, second]= UTC

Error: line 3, Insufficient number of outputs from right hand side of equal sign to satisfy assignment.

[Stephen23]

It looks like you expect this line:

[yyyy, mm, dd, hour, minute, second]= UTC

to perform some kind of array "unpacking" or something like that. MATLAB does not have numeric array unpacking. With some container classes you can use a comma-separated list:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/comma-separated-lists.html

You might find it beneficial to work with DATETIME objects, rather than manipulating dates "by hand" like that.

[Mohammad Khan]

Thanks for the explanation but still I could'nt solve the problem.

Answer 1

[Voss]

CEST = [2022,10, 11, 2, 0, 0];
UTC = CEST-[0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0];

This is what you intend to do:

yyyy = UTC(1);
mm = UTC(2);
dd = UTC(3);
hour = UTC(4);
minute = UTC(5);
second = UTC(6);

% display the variables' values
yyyy, mm, dd, hour, minute, second

yyyy = 2022

mm = 10

dd = 11

hour = 0

minute = 0

second = 0

Or, to do the same thing in a way more like what you had in mind:

temp = num2cell(UTC);
[yyyy, mm, dd, hour, minute, second] = deal(temp{:})

yyyy = 2022

mm = 10

dd = 11

hour = 0

minute = 0

second = 0

[Mohammad Khan]

Thanks for the sugested solution. It gave me an idea and I solved my problem like this.

CEST = [2022,10, 11, 2, 0, 0];
UTC = CEST-[0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0];

This was my function to convert Georgian Calender to Julian Calender.

function [jd,mdj] = gre2jd(yyyy,mm,dd,hour,minute,second);

Then I assigned the the above date to the entry varaible to my function like this.

[jd,mdj] = gre2jd(UTC(1),UTC(2),UTC(3),UTC(3),UTC(4),UTC(5),UTC(6));