Function output into a variable

How do I insert my function outputs into a variable in my script?

Here's my function:

function [r,th] = AddVecPol(r1,th1,r2,th2)

% Getting values of x and y within each vector
x1 = r1*cosd(th1);
y1 = r1*sind(th1);
x2 = r2*cosd(th2);
y2 = r2*cosd(th2);

% Adding the x and y components of each vector together
x = x1+x2;
y = y1+y2;

% Calculating the radius and angle of the added vectors
r = sqrt(x^2 + y^2)
th_rad = atan(y/x);
th = rad2deg(th_rad)
end

And here is my script that I'm calling it to:

AddVecPol(5,23,12,40);

% Generating the output
fprintf(1,'Egr 109 Homework 5 Problem 6\n')
fprintf(1,'  \n')
fprintf(1,'Part a\n')
fprintf(1,'r1 = ( 5.0 <23.0o)\n')
fprintf(1,'r2 = (12.0 <40.0o)\n')
fprintf(1,'resultant = ( %3.3 <%3.3o)\n', [r,th])

I've left r and th in the function without a semicolon at the end so that I can see that I am getting the right answers in the command window, and I am, but I can't put them into the last line of my output (last fprintf line) because r and th are not showing up as variables in my workspace. How can I make them become variables in my script? Thanks!

Answer 1

[dpb]

[r th]=AddVecPol(5,23,12,40);

ML only returns results if you provide somewhere for it to throw them...otherwise the first of multiple results goes into the default ans variable, but anything else is just tossed in the bit bucket...

[Synthia Caruvana]

Okay, how do I provide somewhere to throw them?

[Steven Lord]

See this documentation page for an example of how to return outputs from a function.

[dpb]

That's what the line above does...

Answer 2

[Ryan Hirsch]

I think it should be this but I am not positive.

y2 = r2*sind(th2);

[dpb]

Good catch on the actual internals to the function while we were all focused on the retrurned value syntax, ignoring the results...