Suppress function output

Question

I have a short function which uses textscan to read data into a variable.

My problem is that I always get this:

>>function(\'funct         


        

Answer 1

The simplest way to avoid having output printed out is to not assign the first output argument if no output argument was requested:

function [aOut,b,c] = doSomething

%# create a,b,c normally
a = 1;
b = 4;
c = 3;

%# only assign aOut if any output is requested
if nargout > 0
   aOut = a;
end