Matlab function return value - matlab

Question

I have one program that has function and the problem, return value, it has too many output.
Like exempley: y = text the answer comes up
Error in text (line 2)
if nargin == 0
Output argument "array" (and maybe others) not assigned during call to "
C:\Users\name\Documents\MATLAB\text.m>text".
The program text.m reads a txt file that contains a couple of names and numbers like
exemple:
John doughlas 15986
Filip duch 357852
and so on. The program convert them to 15986 Doughlas John and so on.
function array = text(~)
if nargin == 0
dirr = '.';
end
answer = dir(dirr);
k=1;
while k <= length(answer)
if answer(k).isdir
answer(k)=[];
else
filename{k}=answer(k).name;
k=k+1;
end
end
chose=menu( 'choose file',filename);
namn = char(filename(chose));
fid = fopen(namn, 'r');
R = textscan(fid,'%s %s %s');
x=-1;
k=0;
while x <= 24
x = k + 1;
All = [R{3}{x},' ',R{1}{x},' ',R{2}{x}];
disp(All)
k = k + 1;
end
fclose(fid);
Is there anyway to fix the problem without starting over from scratch?
Grateful for all the answers!

Answer 1

You specify the function output argument in the definition, but you don't assign anything to it in the function body.
For example, in
function y = student(j)
your output is y. So you have to assign something to y.
Read more about functions in MATLAB.

Answer 2

Here is a working example.
The first part is to create a function called 'functionA' in a filename 'functionA.m'. Then put the following code inside:
function result = functionA(N,alpha)
result = 5;
return
end
The second part is to create another Matlab file(i.e. upto you to name it) or you can use the Matlab command window even. Then run the following code:
getresult = functionA(100,10);
getresult
After running you get the following answer:
ans =
5