Result only printed on screen and show in the ans variable in the workspace

This is my code, it read the entire text file and search for a specific word and returns the line that contains that words using token in a cell array. The problem is my assigned variables are not returned not showed in the workspace of my function....

ans: result

Answer 1

[Amit]

If the assigned variables in your code are different than sortedWords, they wont show up in the workspace because they are only for this function.

In order to have then in the workspace, you either need to set them as an output of the function like

function [sortedWords,AssignVal1 ... ] = readFromGigaWord(sortedWords,count)

or you need to run this not as a function but a script.

[KnowledgeSeeker]

Thank you Amit, what I want is the last variable that contains the result to be shown in the workspace instead of ans.

[Amit]

ohh .. then you have to run the code like

sortedWords = readFromGigaWord(input1,input2)

Although I donot see the point of inputting sortedWords in your function when you define it as a empty array in the first line.

[KnowledgeSeeker]

As you mentioned Amit. I better run it as a script

[Amit]

I would think that would be better.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

You can use allwords() http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/27184-allwords to parse your sentence into separate words. It's a heck of a lot easier than using strtok().

Then you can use strfind() to look for a particular word.

[KnowledgeSeeker]

Thank you.. My first to know the allwords function