Re: Cell arrays, more elegantly (addendum)

Perhaps the varargout stuff obscures my main question. For the purposes of
this example I'm assuming that nargout = 5. I think my problem comes down to
whether or not the use of deal can be combined with array indexing. I don't
really want to have to form a string with a variable amount of entries and
then plug that into deal: I don't really want to have
? = deal(x_1,x_2,...,x_k)
with the argument string made from a for loop.
Can I do something like
X = [x_1, x_2, ... x_k]
? = deal(X(column 1:column k))
or
? = deal(X)(column 1:column k)

In article <d79li4$17tl$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>, mcross@ma.man.ac.uk
says...
> Perhaps the varargout stuff obscures my main question. For the purposes of
> this example I'm assuming that nargout = 5. I think my problem comes down 
to
> whether or not the use of deal can be combined with array indexing. I don'
t
> really want to have to form a string with a variable amount of entries and
> then plug that into deal: I don't really want to have
>     ? = deal(x_1,x_2,...,x_k)
> with the argument string made from a for loop.
> Can I do something like
>     X = [x_1, x_2, ... x_k]
>     ? = deal(X(column 1:column k))
> or
>     ? = deal(X)(column 1:column k)
>
>
>

Make X a cell array:

X = {x_1 x_2 ... x_k}

Then, in R14, you don't even need to use deal.  You can simply do this:

varargout(1:length(X)) = X{:};

and that will distribute the results.
--Loren