How do I place function outputs into an array?

Hi everyone

I am a relative beginner with MATLAB and I am trying to write a function which takes one input integer 'x', and returns an array of the squares of all numbers from 1 to x.

Here is my function so far:

function [y] = squaresarray (x);

for i=1:x;

y=i^2

end

When I try to call the function and insert a random value of x (e.g. 4), I just get all the squared values returned as multiple answers for y. How can I place these into a 1 dimensional array so that all the outputs are placed into one row?

Thank you

Answer 1

[David Hill]

function y = squaresarray(x)
  y=(1:x).^2;
end

[Xiuchen Han]

Thank you sir!