Issue with the number of outputs in my function

Hi, total MATLAB novice here. I am writing a program for class and I am having an issue with the number of outputs the program gives me after I run.

function [mean, median, variance] = createData(dataInput)
dataSet=[]; %establishes the existance of dataSet

updatedDataSet = addData(dataSet,dataInput); %calls to addData function to put the new input into the dataset
dataSet=updatedDataSet; %updates the value of dataSet
mean = meanCalculator(updatedDataSet); %calls the mean calculator to find mean
median = medianCalculator(updatedDataSet); %calls the median calculator to find median
variance = varianceCalculator(updatedDataSet,mean); %calls varianceCalculator to find variance
end

All the individual calculators work by themselves, and feed the outputs to this central program, but the program will only release the value for the "mean" variable once it is finished. I am not sure why it is doing this... Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

The default behaviour for function output is to return only the first output unless you ask for all of them.

This will return all three:

dataInput = ...;
[mean, median, variance] = createData(dataInput);

[Rich Cavanaugh]

yup that works! Thank You so much.

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!