How do I Pass Function Parameters Which Get Updated Within A Loop

Hi,

Im posting the very high level crux of the problem I'm facing. I've bolded the part whic has left me stratching my head and would like inputs

Keywords: Master Code (code Im executing directly), function1- used by master code to obtain some parameters

Master code

Calls function1

Uses output of function1(will be an interger) to plot/shift a predetermined function

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function1

for = -x:1:x

need to return (x) and then proceed with the rest of the loop

rest of the loop does some other cool stuff

end

Also, because the loop return variable retruns a different value everytime, the master code needs to be able to monitor the change in value of parameter1 and reflect changes to its output after it happens.

From what I understand, a simple return(x) in function1's loop would return the value and skip the remaining part of the loop (which is a big no-no). So, thats not the way to go, right?.

I thought I'd be "smart" and make paramter 'x' as one of the output variables of function1 but nothing happened; should that be the case?

Any suggestions/comments? Also, a more fundamental question, is there a name for what I'm trying to do here (apart from cerebral defenstration)?

[Alex Mcaulley]

Do you really need to do this? Probably you can do the same by changing the philoshophy: I mean:

Master code:

for = -x:1:x
    res = function1();
    %plots or whatever
end

function1

x=function function1(...)
    %other things with no loops
end

[Tarun Cousik]

Yes! Thats what I ended up doing! Thanks Alex! - I will accept this as a answer if you choose to submit this as one.

On a side note, I am curious, do you know if something like this( "return value and continue loop") is possible? If there is, what is called?

[Alex Mcaulley]

I don't know how it is called (if it has name), but you can do it using global variables and while loops to wait for the result of the other function (for example), but it is not recommendable.