Suppressing Functions Without Removing Output

Hello,

I am new to matlab and I have been having this problem:

-Say for example I have this function,

function  [circle_area] = calcarea(r)
%calculates the area of a circle given radius length
circle_area = pi.*(r.^2)
end

- This displays out the output circle_area and also the "ans"

- I want to suppress the "ans: but without removing the output [cicle_area]

- If I delte [circle_area] I am affecting all my scripts where I use this function

- Example Script affected by deleting output:-

% This script calculates the area of a circle
% It prompts the user for the radius
radius = input('Please enter the radius: ');
% It then calls our function to calculate the
% area and then prints the result
area = calcarea(radius);
disp('The area is ');
disp(area); 

- This displays an error too many outputs which I concluded came from the missing output when I delete [circle_area]

Can someone help me with this, it would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

[Stephan]

% This script calculates the area of a circle
% It prompts the user for the radius
radius = input('Please enter the radius: ');
% It then calls our function to calculate the
% area and then prints the result
area = calcarea(radius);
fprintf('The area is: %f\n',area);
 

function circle_area = calcarea(r)
%calculates the area of a circle given radius length
circle_area = pi.*(r.^2);
end

[Ahmed Elsawah]

Thanks for the answer. The thing is, this way round the function outputs ans = 12.566 for example instead of circle_area = 12.566.

[Stephen23]

"The thing is, this way round the function outputs ans = 12.566 for example instead of circle_area = 12.566"

Nope. This answer does what you asked for, no ans anywhere to be seen. Note that the name of the output variable circle_area used inside the function is totally irrelevant when you call the function.

% This script calculates the area of a circle
radius = 2;
area = calcarea(radius);
fprintf('The area is: %f\n',area);

The area is: 12.566371

 
function circle_area = calcarea(r)
%calculates the area of a circle given radius length
circle_area = pi.*(r.^2);
end

The only way you would get ans is if you did not use the code given in that answer, e.g. by calling the function without allocating its output to a variable and without suppressing its output with a semi-colon.

[Ahmed Elsawah]

Thank you