Re: multiple outputs from a function
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- Subject: [mg52783] Re: multiple outputs from a function
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:22:37 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 12/11/04 at 5:22 AM, barrowes at alum.mit.edu (Ben Barrowes) wrote:
>I feel I must be missing something fundamental...
>How do you write a function (or ?) in Mathematica which produces
>more than one output?
>Let's say I have some data and I want a single function to
>calculate the mean, variance, std, etc, more than one thing and
>return those? I know that there are builtin functions for those
>parameters, but the point is I want to define functions with more
>than one output.
>The only examples I can find are along the lines of:
>f[x_,y_]:=x^2+y^2;
>which have only a single result.
>Is there a different structure altogether, such as a Subroutine,
>which allows multiple results from a single subunit?
The way I would do this is to return the results in a list.
>One thought I had was that because Mathematica treats everything as
>global unless defined specifically local (e.g. in a module), that
>variables used in a procedure would be accessible and would thus be
>a "result", but it seems scoping problems would arise if this was
>used too often. For example:
>In[67]:= t1[x_,y_]:=(a1=x^2+y;a2=x+y^2;x+y)
Instead try
t1[x_,y_]:={x^2+y, x+y^2, x+y}
{a1,a2,t2}=t1[5,6];
t2
11
a1
31
a2
41
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