"I want to assign multiple arrays of data simultaneously to different variable, but I think my syntax is wrong"
It looks as if you are trying to write Python code. If you want to understand what your MATLAB code is actually doing:
- On the RHS square brackets are a concatenation operator (not a "list" operator, which MATLAB does not have). So your RHS concatenates some arrays together into one array, and is equivalent to this: D([1:2,2:10])
- On the LHS square brackets are used to capture multiple function outputs. However array concatenation only returns one output, so the code you show will not work: one output cannot be directly assigned to three outputs.
Square brackets are used a lot in MATLAB, you need to understand what they mean and how to use them:
