How to index an output without creating intermediate variable?

Hi,

what keeps frustrating me about Matlab - or my lack of Matlab skills that is..

How do I do this more nicely

tmp = get(gca, 'YLim');
set(gca, 'YLim', [0, tmp(2)]); 
clear tmp;

% I would imagine something like this:
set(gca, 'YLim', [0, get(gca, 'YLim'){2}]); 

It's not about this specific example, it's about how to avoid having to create a temporary variable in order to index the output. I could come up with a ton of other examples that have crossed my projects over the years.

here's another example which is obviously dumbed down. The idx will not be hardcoded obviously

CellWithStuff = {'one', 'two', 'three', 'four'};
tmp = contains(CellWithStuff, 'o');
OutputIWant = tmp(1);

% what I'm looking for is replacing
contains(CellWithStuff, 'o')[1]   %  accessing the first entry of the output somehow simpler...

I'm not a professional developer, so maybe there is an obvious solution to something like this.

I'd appreciate any suggestions!

Arnold

[James Tursa]

MATLAB doesn't support this capability natively, so the only thing you can do is live with it or use klunky workaround code.

[arnold]

hm.... not what I wanted to hear, at least I'm not entirely incapable of searching the web for answers then (I never found any).

Answer 1

[David Hill]

CellWithStuff{find(contains(CellWithStuff,'o'),1)};
CellWithStuff(find(contains(CellWithStuff,'o'),1));%depending on what you want