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<span id="Returning-from-a-Function-1"></span><h3 class="section">11.3 Returning from a Function</h3>
<p>The body of a user-defined function can contain a <code>return</code> statement.
This statement returns control to the rest of the Octave program. It
looks like this:
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<pre class="example">return
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<p>Unlike the <code>return</code> statement in C, Octave’s <code>return</code>
statement cannot be used to return a value from a function. Instead,
you must assign values to the list of return variables that are part of
the <code>function</code> statement. The <code>return</code> statement simply makes
it easier to exit a function from a deeply nested loop or conditional
statement.
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<p>Here is an example of a function that checks to see if any elements of a
vector are nonzero.
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<pre class="example">function retval = any_nonzero (v)
retval = 0;
for i = 1:length (v)
if (v (i) != 0)
retval = 1;
return;
endif
endfor
printf ("no nonzero elements found\n");
endfunction
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<p>Note that this function could not have been written using the
<code>break</code> statement to exit the loop once a nonzero value is found
without adding extra logic to avoid printing the message if the vector
does contain a nonzero element.
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<dt id="index-return">: <em></em> <strong>return</strong></dt>
<dd><p>When Octave encounters the keyword <code>return</code> inside a function or
script, it returns control to the caller immediately. At the top level,
the return statement is ignored. A <code>return</code> statement is assumed
at the end of every function definition.
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