Skipping outputs with anonymous function in MATLAB

Question

Say I want to create an anonymous function from a m-file-function that returns two outputs. Is it possible to set up the anonymous function such that it only returns the sec

Answer 1

One way to do this is to define the function:

function varargout = getOutput(func,outputNo,varargin)
    varargout = cell(max(outputNo),1);
    [varargout{:}] = func(varargin{:});
    varargout = varargout(outputNo);
end

and then getOutput(@ttest2,2,u,v) gives only the p-value.

To use it in a cellfun you would need to run:

probabilities = cellfun(@(u,v)getOutput(@ttest2,2,u,v)...

This eliminates the need to write a wrapper every time, but then you have to make sure this function is always in the path.