Problem 1504. Perl 3: shift

This is part of a series of perl function which were very helpful for many perl programmers. Could you implement it in Matlab?

Shifts the first value of the array off and returns it, shortening the array by 1 and moving everything down.

Example:

x=[1 2 3 4 5]
[a, x]=shift(x)

then

x=[2 3 4 5]
a=1

Solve

Last solution submitted on Apr 11, 2019

Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 13 May 2013

Error in the example (x=[2 3 4 5])

Clemens Giegerich on 14 May 2013

Typo, thanks!