diff --git a/src/saveEventsFile.m b/src/saveEventsFile.m
index 6ccf2ee1..b254a91d 100644
--- a/src/saveEventsFile.m
+++ b/src/saveEventsFile.m
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
 function printHeaderExtraColumns(logFile)
     % print any extra column specified by the user
 
-    [namesExtraColumns, logFile] = returnNamesExtraColumns(logFile);
+    [namesExtraColumns] = returnNamesExtraColumns(logFile);
 
     for iExtraColumn = 1:numel(namesExtraColumns)
 
diff --git a/src/utils/returnNamesExtraColumns.m b/src/utils/returnNamesExtraColumns.m
index 5b77ee37..2870bcb8 100644
--- a/src/utils/returnNamesExtraColumns.m
+++ b/src/utils/returnNamesExtraColumns.m
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 % (C) Copyright 2020 CPP_BIDS developers
 
-function [namesExtraColumns, logFile] = returnNamesExtraColumns(logFile)
+function [namesExtraColumns] = returnNamesExtraColumns(logFile)
     %
     % Short description of what the function does goes here.
     %