About using quad in MATLAB

Question

I encounter a strange problem with quad function. I was using quad to calculate simple integral, and it worked for 10 to 20 times, then Matlab issues the following error:

Error using quad (line 75)
The integrand function must return an output vector of the same length as the input vector. 
yteor(k) = quad(@(q)(exp(-(q).^2).*q.^2/(k.^2+1)), 0, 1);

Here q and k are scalars. I can not get what is wrong and why it worked several hours ago.

Edit

Here is my code

for k=1:100,
    xteor(k)=step*k;
    yteor(k)=quad(@(q)(exp(-(q).^2).*q.^2/((step.*k+1).^2)),0,1);
end plot(xteor,yteor,'r');

Answer 1

The following snippet works for me on Octave (Matlab GNU clone)

step = 1;
xteor = zeros(100,1);
yteor = zeros(100,1);

for k=1:100,
  xteor(k)=step*k;
  yteor(k)=quad(@(q)(exp(-(q).^2).*q.^2/((step.*k+1).^2)),0,1);
end
plot(xteor,yteor,'r');
pause

My hypothesis is that your error is the consequence of something else happening earlier in your code (maybe related to step not being a scalar?). Instead of focusing on this line where the error arise. Try to search what you have changed just before the error appear.