Call both outputs of a function in a for loop

I have a function VirtualPPDispatch which has one input and 2 outputs:

    function [gencost, sortedNames] = VirtualPPDispatch(curCell1)

The input curCell1 is a vector which changes row size. An example of curCell1 is the matrix below:

    curCell1 = [492,0,0,4.95000000000000,-4.95000000000000,1,100,1,33,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,6;492,0,0,66.7500000000000,-66.7500000000000,1,100,1,445,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,6;492,0,0,24,-24,1,100,1,160,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,6;492,0,0,13.2000000000000,-13.2000000000000,1,100,1,44,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,6;492,0,0,47.2500000000000,-47.2500000000000,1,100,1,63,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,6;492,0,0,21.7500000000000,-21.7500000000000,1,100,1,29,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,6];

After some calculations within the function VirtualPPDispatch I get the outputs: gencost and sortedNames. When I call the function in my main .m file I use the following syntax:

   %cost_matrix is filled with the output gencost
    cost_matrix = cell(size(GENcostSorted_PmaxPmin_columnsADDED,1), 1); 
    for i1 = 1:size(GENcostSorted_PmaxPmin_columnsADDED,1)
        curCell1 = GENcostSorted_PmaxPmin_columnsADDED{i1};
        cost_matrix(i1) = {VirtualPPDispatch(curCell1)}; 
        clear curCell1
    end

I don't know how to get the sortedNames out in the same for loop so what I do is I copied the relevant parts where I obtain sortedNames and made a separate function out of it which I call using the following for loop:

    %dispatch_seq is filled with the outputs of sortedNames 
    dispatch_seq = cell(size(GENcostSorted_PmaxPmin_columnsADDED,1), 1); 
    for i2 = 1:size(GENcostSorted_PmaxPmin_columnsADDED,1)
        curCell1 = GENcostSorted_PmaxPmin_columnsADDED{i2};
        dispatch_seq(i2) = {SortedNames(curCell1)};  %cell version of mpc.gen matrix 
    end

This works however, what I am doing is pretty much executing the same function twice which increases the computational time significantly. Could you tell me how I could combine everything in one loop so I do not have to copy and rename the function and call it a second time to get the second output.

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

Instead of this:

cost_matrix(i1) = {VirtualPPDispatch(curCell1)};

Try this:

[tmp1,tmp2] = VirtualPPDispatch(curCell1);
cost_matrix{i1} = tmp1;