Suppression failure on evalin command

I'm having a problem suppressing the evalin function when using it to change elements in a vector. The semi-colon isn't working. Is there a fix for this? Here's an example:

>> i=zeros(1,4);

>> evalin('base','i(1)=1');

i =

     1     0     0     0

The semicolon doesn't suppress the output for some reason.

Answer 1

[Mischa Kim]

Ian, put the semi-colon right after the i(1)=1 statement

 evalin('base','i(1)=1;')

Answer 2

[Jan]

It would be much more simple and efficient to omit the indirection over evalin:

i(1) = 1;

See the excellent explanations at tutorial:why-variables-should-not-be-named-dynamically-eval . You find a detailed analysis of the problems evalin causes here at: Answers: is-there-the-more-elegant-way-to-do-this#comment_476583

Answer 3

[Ian]

So simple, yet so effective. Thanks!