Indexing result of strsplit('My string', ' ')

Why doesn't something like

strsplit('My string', ' ')(1)

work?

Is there a more elegant way than

x = strsplit('My string', ' ')
x(1)

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

No matlab does not allow indexing directly into the return value of a function (or any other temporary variable). There is not workaround other than assigning the temporary to a variable, as you have done.

Note that if you want the content of the first element of the cell array {} would be more appropriate

x = strsplit('My string', ' ')
x{1}

[Nicolas Bourbaki]

Thanks a lot for your answer. It helps me a lot.