MATLAB: How do you make multiple variable assignments from s struct

struct assignment

There has to be a straightfoward way to do this but I can't find it to save my life:
 s = struct([]);
 s(1).x = 1;
 s(1).y = 2;
 s(2).x = -1;
 s(2).y = -2;
 [x1, y1] = s(1); % where x1 is initialized to be s(1).x and y1 to be s(1).y
I have a struct with >10 elements. I'd really like to not have to assign variables one line at a time.

Best Answer

If you choose to do it the way Joseph Chang mentioned - then I would strongly advise that you change the eval statement to use dynamic fields instead, e.g.:
function a = extractfield(s,name)
  a = s.(name)
end
You could remove the sub function entirely:
function varargout = extractfields(s)
  name = fieldnames(s);   
  for ind = 1:length(name)
     varargout{ind} = s.(name{ind}); 
  end
end
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