Elegantly refer to the second output from a function
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Hello everyone. I have a function (matlab function, say "ismember") and I want to use the second output from this function as index in a vector. For example:
data = rand(1,10);
[A,B] = ismember(1,[0,1,2,3,4,5]);
result = data(B);
My question is how do I skip the second line and directly use B in line 3.
Many thanks
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Hank
el 6 de Feb. de 2020
Editada: Hank
el 6 de Feb. de 2020
I wrote two or three functions that allow me to do this. I agree, its much nicer to be able to one line certain values from builtin functions. I hate writing
[~,~,extension] = fileparts( file );
[~,imax] = max(x);
When i want to use extension or imax directly in a statement. So put these functions in your path:
function out = out2(fun) % gets the second output argument of anonymous function fun
[~,out] = fun(); % fun must have no input arguments
end
function out = out3(fun) % gets third
[~,~,out] = fun();
end
% make a function for 4 or 5 or however many output arguments you have!
Then call these with
ext = out3(@() fileparts(file));
imax = out2(@() max(x));
Note whats happening here is that you're wrapping up your original function call in an anonymous function with no arguments. Then this gets called inside the outN function and the correct output argument is returned.
The syntax is a little more clunky, but hey, its one line, it allows something like:
switch out3(@() fileparts(file))
case '.csv'; % csv stuff
case '.txt'; % txt stuff
end
Jeremy
el 22 de Ag. de 2022
none of these proved the requested solution. MATLAB is a command line environement. Not being able to call a specific argument from a function makes the programming more expanded. This really should be a option for all function calls.
Why not just use the solutions mentioned?
- As stated, it requires multple command line executions or a wrapper function that would be unnecssary if this was available by default
- If the comman [~,X,~,~]=func(A,B,C) has to be called in an m file just to be able to use X, X is now stored in the workspace
- If a funciton has to be writted to wrap "func", X has to be computed in func, returned by func then returned by the wrapper function, so inherently less effecient.
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gotjen
el 22 de Ag. de 2022
Okay but
- Yes, this is the probelm we're trying to solve
- Yes, this is the problem we're trying to solve
- Returning a result from a nested function is not as time-expensive as you think it is. Even though its seems more theoretically convoluted, computationally its VERY fast.
Walter Roberson
el 22 de Ag. de 2022
None of them provide the requested solution because MATLAB does not support the requested functionality.
Arlon
el 7 de Nov. de 2023
function ab=wrapTwo(f,varargin)
[a,b]=f(varargin{:});
ab={a,b};
end
extractACell=@(index,cell_array) cell_array{index};
data = rand(1,10)
result = data(extractACell(2,wrapTwo(@ismember,1,[0,1,2,3,4,5])))
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jessupj
el 12 de Dic. de 2023
what i've been doing lately, in case it's helpful to anyone, is to make a class containing my most commonly used functions that i need 2nd outputs from
e.g.
classdef arg2
methods(Static)
function locb = ismember(varargin)
[~, locb] = ismember(varargin);
end
function imax = max(varargin)
[~,imax] = max(varargin);
end
end
end
etc. And then when i want the second arguments, i just call arg2.ismember or arg2.max. Easy, but it would be super nice if this kind of thing was built in.
Another place the second argument is really important is the output of ODE solvers. I often only need the second argument of e.g. [TOUT,YOUT] = ode45(ODEFUN,TSPAN,Y0) to pass into an error calculation/optimizer/etc.
For this, i find the easiest thing to do is grab the solution from the structure output using the dot:
ode45(ODEFUN,TSPAN,Y0).y % or .x (for time points)
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James Tursa
el 9 de Feb. de 2018
Editada: James Tursa
el 9 de Feb. de 2018
Unless the function has an input argument syntax that specifies only returning B, you can't do this. You can throw away that A immediately with this syntax however:
[~,B] = ismember(1,[0,1,2,3,4,5]);
That won't prevent the function from calculating that 1st result, it is just thrown away immediately upon return so that it doesn't clutter your workspace.
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Walter Roberson
el 9 de Feb. de 2018
Right. Unfortunately there is no way in MATLAB to specify that you want to extract a particular output number of an expression and use that: you have to write the outputs to variables.
James Tursa
el 9 de Feb. de 2018
It would be nice to have an "argout_wanted" that can be queried from within the function to find out which outputs the caller actually wants returned.
Grigory Tagiltsev
el 9 de Feb. de 2018
You have to call the function anyway. You can do [~,B] = ismember(1,[0,1,2,3,4,5]); and avoid A. It doesn't decrease a number of lines though. You can also cheat a bit and do [B,B] = ismember(1,[0,1,2,3,4,5]); in this case only the second output will be written to B.
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