MATLAB: Assign value to an empty sym

Question

Hello, i have this question.

I am using this code:

       syms t1 t2  x1 x2  v1 v2  positive   
       [t1,t2,v1,v2,x1,x2]=solve(T == t1+t2,a == x0+x1+x2, t1 == (-v0+sqrt(v0^2+2*brake*(-x1)))/(-brake),    v1 == v0-brake*t1, t2 == (-v1+sqrt(v1^2-2*acc*(-x2)))/acc, v2 == v1+acc*t2, t1,t2,v1,v2,x1,x2);

T,a,v0, accel and brake are values that i already know.

Sometimes this equations cant be solved, so MATLAB gives me "empty syms" as solution. What i want is, when there is no solution and MATLAB gives me the empty syms, assign 0 to this values. I want to do something like:

if(t1=="empty sym")
t1=0;
end

But i dont find anything to check if t1="empty sym". If anyone could help me I would appreciate that. Thank you very much.

Answer 1

This works, but you will have to do it for all of the empty variables individually if that is what you want:

if isempty(t1) 
    t1 = 0;
end