??How to get the Name of the Output to the left of the equal sign??

Hallo everyone,

I am now searching a way to get the Name of the output to the left of the equal sign in a function.

For example, I call a function like this:

OutputName = myfun(input1, input2)

Is it possible, that I can get the name "OutputName" in "myfun" and use it? It means, my function should know the name "OutputName" when it is called.

how to realize it?

thanks and regard! Zhang

Answer 1

[per isakson]

The short answer is NO followed by a question WHY.

The long answer is maybe:

1. dbstack(2) has the name of the caller and the line number
2. which('name') will provide the full file specification
3. read the file and parse the line

but why would you want to do something like that?