Can't get an output from my function using loops

function resultData = enter_data(numTrials)

dataArray = cell(numTrials, 4);

iteration = 1;

while iteration <= numTrials

promptName = "Enter the name of trial: ";

getName = input(promptName, 's');

dataArray{iteration, 1} = getName;

promptMeasure1 = 'Enter first measurement: ';

getMeasure1 = input(promptMeasure1);

dataArray{iteration, 2} = getMeasure1;

promptMeasure2 = 'Enter second measurement: ';

getMeasure2 = input(promptMeasure2);

dataArray{iteration, 3} = getMeasure2;

promptMeasure3 = 'Enter third measurement: ';

getMeasure3 = input(promptMeasure3);

dataArray{iteration, 4} = getMeasure3;

iteration = iteration+1;

end

disp(dataArray);

resultData = dataArray;

end

I'm unable to get resultData as an output from this function. What am I doing wrong?

[Steven Lord]

How are you calling the function? Please show us the exact call you made to enter_data.

[Alec Burton]

I called it using enter_data(1) to test. That actually helped me, I didn't realize that I needed to include the output variable in the call. Thanks.

Answer 1

[Alec Burton]

The problem I was having was related to the way I was calling the function. I hadn't realized I needed to include my output variable in the call because I had assumed I only needed to call the function name. My previous calls looked like: enter_data(1) when they should've looked like: resultData = enter_data(1)