How to assign parameters at the same time?

I have a vector v = [1,2,3,4,5] and I would like to do the following in a shorter form (in one line), if possible: a = v(1); second = v(2); v3 = v(3); something = v(4); z = v(5); It would be nice to do like this: [a,second,v3,something,z] = ... ?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

The deal function exists to do just what you want:

[a,second,v3,something,z] = deal(1,2,3,4,5)

another possibility:

v = [1,2,3,4,5];
vc = mat2cell(v, 1, ones(size(v)));
[a,second,v3,something,z] = deal(vc{:})