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Matlab Tips and Tricks on Manipulating 1-D Arrays (Vectors)

14 Jan 2008Quan Quach196 comments

Introduction
1-D Arrays (also known as vectors) are commonly used within Matlab, so it is a good idea to understand how they work and how to bend them to your will. This is a quick tutorial on some simple tricks that you may or may not know about vectors.

Creating Vectors
1. How to create a row vector that increments by 1. For example, lets create a row vector that goes from 1 to 10, with increments of 1.
2. myVector = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]; %the hard way 3. myVector = 1:10 %the easy way

4. How to transform a row vector to a column vector, and vice versa.

5. myVector = 1:10; %creates a row vector 6. myVector = myVector' %this is the complex conjugate transpose 7. myVector = myVector.' %is the non-conjugate transpose

Note: Dan Kominsky pointed out that is a subtle but important difference here. When you are working with real numbers the difference is irrelevant, but when you are dealing with complex numbers, the meaning is entirely different! Thanks for the correction, Dan. 8. How to create a column vector that increments by 1. For example, lets create a column vector that goes from 1 to 10, with increments of 1.
9. myVector = [1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10]; %the hard way 10.myVector = [1:10].' %the easy way

11. How to create a vector that increments by a specific value. Lets create a vector that goes from 1 to 19, and increments by 2. Note that the increment value is not limited to integers.
12.myVector = 1:2:19

13. How to create a vector that decrements by a specific value. Lets create a vector that goes from 10 to 1, and decrements by 1
14.myVector = 10:-1:1

15. How to create a vector with equally spaced points. Lets create a vector that goes from 0 to 100 with 21 equally spaced points.
16.%first argument is the start value of the vector 17.%second argument is the end value of the vector 18.%third argument is the number of points within the vector 19.myVector = linspace(0,100,21)

20. How to create a vector of zeros. For example, lets create a vector of 10 zeros.
21.%first argument is the number of rows 22.%second argument is the number of columns 23.rowZeros = zeros(1,10)

Note: Incidentally, this is a great way to preallocate a vector. Preallocating a vector is most useful when FOR loops are involved. Preallocating a vector is preferred over resizing a vector repeatedly as it reduces the processing time. 24. How to create a vector of ones. For example, lets create a vector of 10 ones.
25.%first argument is the number of rows 26.%second argument is the number of columns 27.rowOnes = ones(1,10)

Note: This is yet another way to preallocate a vector.

Adding, Removing, and Replacing Elements within a Vector

28. How to append a vector. For example, lets add 11 to the end of the vector
29.myVector = 1:10; 30.myVector = [myVector 11] 31. 32.%we can also add 11 to the beginning of the vector 33.myVector = [11 myVector];

Note: This method of appending vectors should not be used within large FOR loops. When resizing arrays, memory must be reallocated with a larger size. If this is done repeatedly, there is a speed penalty. 34. How to append two vectors together.
35.myVector1 = 1:5; 36.myVector2 = 6:10; 37.myVectorAppend = [myVector1 myVector2] 38.%myVectorAppend = cat(2,myVector1,myVector2) does the same thing

Note: Same warning as above. 39. How to remove a particular element from a vector. Lets say we want to remove the 4th entry.
40.myVector = 1:10; 41.myVector(4) = []

42. How to replace a particular element with a different element within a vector. Lets say we want to replace the 4th entry with the value of 100.
43.myVector = 1:10; 44.myVector(4) = 100

45. How to remove the last element from a vector.

46.myVector = 1:10; 47.myVector(end) = []

48. How to remove the last 5 elements.

49.myVector = 1:10; 50.myVector(end-4:end) = []

51. How to keep the last 5 elements (or equivalently, remove the first five elements).
52.myVector = 1:10; 53.myVector = myVector(end-4:end) 54. 55.%the following command does the same thing 56.myVector(1:5) =[];

57. How to remove a series of elements. For example, lets remove entries 3 through 6:
58.myVector = 1:10; 59.myVector(3:6) = []

60. How to keep a series of elements. For example, lets keep entries 3 through 6:
61.myVector = 1:10; 62.myVector = myVector(3:6)

63. How to remove a group of specific elements. For example, lets remove entries 2,5, and 7:
64.myVector = 1:10; 65.myVector([2,5,7]) = []

66. How to keep a group of specific elements. For example, lets keep entries 2,5, and 7:
67.myVector = 1:10; 68.myVector = myVector([2,5,7])

69. How to get the number of elements within a vector. Useful when creating a for loop to run through a vector.
70.myVector = 1:10; 71.numElements = length(myVector) 72. 73.%the following command does the same thing 74.numElements = numel(myVector)

75. How to remove all zeros from a vector.

76.myVector = [0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 4 5 1 2 0 0]; 77. 78.%index contains the indices elements within myVector which are non-zero 79.index = find(myVector); 80.myVector = myVector(index) %removes all the zeros within the vector

Alternatively, logical indexing can be used (and is more efficient)

myVector(myVector == 0) = [];

81. How to remove a particular value from a vector. For example, how to remove any occurence of 6 within a vector
82.myVector = [6 6 0 1 2 3 0 0 6 6 1 2 0 0]; 83. 84.%index contains the indices of elements within myVector which are equal to 6

85.index = find(myVector == 6 ); 86.myVector(index) = []

Alternatively, logical indexing can be used (and is more efficient)

myVector(myVector == 6) = [];

87. How to remove the first two occurences of 6 within a vector

88.myVector = [6 6 0 1 2 3 0 0 6 6 1 2 0 0]; 89.index = find(myVector == 6,2); 90.myVector(index) = []

91. How to remove all elements greater than 5 from a vector.

92.myVector = [10 0 0 1 12 3 0 0 4 5 1 12 0 0]; 93. 94.%index contains indices of elements within myVector which are greater than 5 95.index = find(myVector > 5); 96.myVector(index) = []

Alternatively, logical indexing can be used (and is more efficient)

myVector(myVector > 5) = [];

97. Similarly, how to remove all elements less than 5 from a vector.
98.myVector = [10 0 0 1 12 3 0 0 4 5 1 12 0 0]; 99. 100.%index contains the indices of elements within myVector which are less than 5 101.index = find(myVector < 5); 102.myVector(index) = []

Alternatively, logical indexing can be used (and is more efficient)

myVector(myVector < 5) = [];

Sorting and Shifting Vectors

103.How to reverse a vector.
104.myVector = 1:10; 105.myVector = myVector(end:-1:1)

106.How to sort a vector.

107.myVector = [10 0 0 1 12 3 0 0 4 5 1 12 0 0]; 108.myVectorAscend = sort(myVector) %sort ascending 109.myVectorDescend = sort(myVector,'descend') %sort descending

110.How to shift the elements one spot to the right.

111.myVector = 1:10; 112.myVector = myVector([end 1:end-1])

113.How to shift the elements one spot to the left.

114.myVector = 1:10; 115.myVector2 = myVector([2:end 1])

Other useful commands:

116.How to get the maximum and minimum value of a vector
117.myVector = [10 0 0 1 12 3 0 0 4 5 1 12 0 0];

118.maxValue = max(myVector); 119.minValue = min(myVector);

120.How to add up all the elements within a vector.

121.myVector = 1:10; 122.total = sum(myVector);

123.How to get the product of all the elements within a vector.

124.myVector = 1:10; 125.total = prod(myVector);

126.How to get the average, standard deviation, and variance of a vector.

127.myVector = 1:10; 128.averageArray = mean(myVector) 129.stdArray = std(myVector) 130.varArray = var(myVector)

Got any tricks up your sleeve?

There are a ton of Matlab tricks that were not covered in this tutorial. Do you know of any super useful trick? If you have any of your own tips and tricks up your sleeve, please share at least one!

196 Responses to Matlab Tips and Tricks on Manipulating 1-D Arrays (Vectors)
1. on 14 Jan 2008 at 7:46 am 1Dan K

Im sorry to tell you that you made one of the classic blunders of matlab programming. The transpose of a vector is NOT myVector ! It is myVector. When you are working with real numbers the difference is irrelevant, but the myVector is the complex conjugate of the transpose! And believe me it is a royal pain to debug that mistake, since it is a coding error that is very hard to see. Hope this helps. Dan
2. on 14 Jan 2008 at 2:14 pm 2Quan Quach

Dan K: Thanks for the correction. It is a subtle, but important point!! I have edited the post to reflect your comment. Thanks, Quan
3. on 15 Jan 2008 at 7:31 am 3Dan K

Actually, Quan, there is one other major area in which your code is inefficient (although functionally correct). It is generally significantly faster to use logical indexing rather than the find command. For example in item number 24 you use: index = find(myVector > 5); myVector(index) = [] Whereas a faster implementaiton (and, I think more clear) is: myVector(myVector >5)=[];

HTH, Dan
4. on 15 Jan 2008 at 7:56 pm 4Quan Quach

Thanks Again Dan. Your suggestion is duly noted and I have edited the post to reflect it.
5. on 21 Jan 2008 at 2:40 pm 5Vahid

I need to muliple a vector to every single column (as the same size of the vector) of a matrix element by element without using the for loop. Is there any way to do it?
6. on 21 Jan 2008 at 3:23 pm 6Quan Quach

Try using the repmat command. For example:

myVector = [1;2;3;4] %the vector you will be multiplying with myMatrix = magic(4); % the matrix you are multiplying into. myVectorRepeated = repmat(myVector,1,4); myAnswer = myMatrix .* myVectorRepeated; %notice the dot before the multipy

7. on 16 Feb 2008 at 9:52 am 7Dave

I visited your website and i found it very useful. Dan comments were even better. Great work!
8. on 09 Mar 2008 at 2:43 pm 8Percy

Ive got a question about removind some indices from a cell, e.g. a=cell(10,10); indicesToRemove = [3,5,8]; I want to remove both the 3th,5th and 8th columns AND rows. such that the dimension of a is [7,7] it doesnt work to put these to a{ind,:}={}; a{:,ind}={}; or does it?
9. on 09 Mar 2008 at 3:05 pm 9Quan Quach

Percy, Try this:

a(:,indicesToRemove) = []; a(indicesToRemove,:) = [];

10. on 12 Mar 2008 at 3:06 am 10anuj

My question is How can I remove rows in a matrix that have third element in the column 0 Input123 230 023 020

Answer should be123 023

11. on 26 Mar 2008 at 12:19 am 11jack

if I have two vectors that have different length,eg. vector1 a=[1 2; 0 1; 2 1] and vector2 b=[ 1 2; 2 1] and I want of delete the elements from vector1 a that have the same values with vector2 b? without using loop, how to make a program?
12. on 26 Mar 2008 at 12:21 am 12jack

assuming that I just have the vectors of a and b, but doesnt know the index of b in a.
13. on 26 Mar 2008 at 12:45 am 13Daniel Sutoyo

hey jack you can use the command setdiff(a,b,rows)

14. on 27 Mar 2008 at 9:49 pm 14takkari

Hi. I am coverting R code into Matlab and have no idea how to do the following: >y z order(y) [1] 1 3 8 2 5 4 6 7 >pp [1] 0.80 3.00 0.30 0.00 0.20 1.30 9.10 0.09 How can I implement this code in matlab as there is no order() function?
15. on 27 Mar 2008 at 11:25 pm 15Quan Quach

Takkari, Maybe the sort function is what you are looking for. Quan
16. on 28 Mar 2008 at 11:32 am 16takkari

Hi Quan, sort(y) just sort the data. What I need is a vector containing indices of the sorted values in original vector y.
17. on 28 Mar 2008 at 2:19 pm 17Daniel Sutoyo

Takkari, You could have said that in the first place, Instead of showing us the R code. [y,i] = sort(y) y is your new sorted values i will be you indices
18. on 28 Mar 2008 at 2:19 pm 18takkari

This code do the same job but takes much time: x=sort(y);

p=[]; for i=1:length(x) p=[p find(y==x(i))]; end length of x is 392480

19. on 28 Mar 2008 at 3:04 pm 19takkari

Thanks Daniel. Problem solved.

20. on 31 Mar 2008 at 1:51 pm 20takkari

Hi Dear, The following code is taking much time any idea how to make it run faster? omegac,alphac,betac are scalars. h,Y,b,bb are vecotrs of of length n. for t=3:n h(t)=omegac+alphac*Y(t-1)+betac*h(t-1); b(t)=Y(t-1); bb(t)=(omegac/(1-betac)^2); for j=2:(t-1) b(t)=b(t)+((betac)^(j-1))*Y(t-j); bb(t)=bb(t)+alphac*(j-1)*((betac)^(j-2))*Y(t-j); end end Thanks
21. on 31 Mar 2008 at 3:33 pm 21Quan Quach

Takkari, Heres something to get you started. Quan

h(3:n) = omegac + alphac*Y(2:n-1) + betac*h(2:n-1); b(3:n) = Y(2:n); bb(3:n)=(omegac/(1-betac)^2); for t=3:n for j=2:(t-1) b(t)=b(t)+((betac)^(j-1))*Y(t-j); bb(t)=bb(t)+alphac*(j-1)*((betac)^(j-2))*Y(t-j); end end

22. on 28 May 2008 at 12:50 pm 22Jon V

Hey! I just wanted to say that your MATLAB tutorials are great, I found them extremely helpful. Everyone elses comments were helpful as well. You have a great website! Thanks
23. on 06 Jun 2008 at 11:34 am 23sathya

n=1:10; average=mean(n)

??? Error: File: mean.m Line: 2 Column: 1 Function definitions are not permitted at the prompt or in scripts. I got this error.How can i get mean?
24. on 06 Jun 2008 at 11:49 am 24sathya

How about these? n(isprime(n))=0 returns 0 for all the primevalues of n n(rem(n,2)==0)=0 returns 0 for all the even values of n n(rem(n,2)~=0)=0 returns 0 for all the odd values of n
25. on 08 Jun 2008 at 3:36 pm 25Travis Johnson

I recently found the unique(V) function very useful in a permutations algorithm which generated the correct answer several ways and stored them all. To prune it down, I used unique. >> v=[0 0 1 1 2 2]; >> unique(v) ans = 012
26. on 25 Jun 2008 at 8:03 am 26Ashley

I have a matrix and I want to remove all columns that are zeros. Does anyone know how to do that? Thanks!
27. on 14 Jul 2008 at 5:19 pm 27Mina

Hey All, Thanks for the useful article. I need to access a 2-D array as a LUT. example LUT = [11 12 13 14; 21 22 23 24; 31 32 33 34]; rowIndex = [3 2]; columnIndex = [4 1]; % size of rowIndex equal size columnIndex Can I get a vector of (3,4) & (2, 1) in a single command. result = [34 21];
28. on 14 Jul 2008 at 5:29 pm 28Mina

I got it We can use result = LUT(sub2ind(size(LUT), rowIndex , columnIndex ));

29. on 24 Jul 2008 at 5:48 am 29tanuj

Hey thanks for nice tips. I have a 2-D matrix A = [1 2 3;4 5 6]; (A can be any arbitary matrix) i want to sum all the elements above the value 2. How can i do that ? i mean i want 3+4+5+6=18(answer)

Thanks a lot
30. on 24 Jul 2008 at 6:10 am 30tanuj

hey i guess i got the answer A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6]; % if i want to add all the values greater than 3, then a(a<3)=0; t=cumsum(cumsum(a),2); t(end) can this be reduced.
31. on 24 Jul 2008 at 9:17 am 31tanuj

but the problem is that my A is of type uint16/uint32. and cumsum is not valid for these types. what do i do, plz susggest thanks in advance
32. on 12 Aug 2008 at 4:30 am 32madhu

Hello Dr Quan Quach , I need a help on polynomial fit if i have to know the 2nd order polynomial fit coefficients(c) and respective errors(e) for x= [-1.0788 -0.8210 -0.6931 -0.3930 -0.1393 0.0198] y= [-0.6791 -0.9390 -0.9597 -1.2373 -1.3237 -1.3737] I used command [c e]=polyfit(x,y,2) i got c = 0.3207 -0.2993 -1.3736 e = R: [3x3 double] df: 3 normr: 0.0669 actually here c is ok (as per our calculation a2 a1 a0) but e should come as 0.13484 0.14533 0.031 could you help me how to get the coefficients errors? Thank you madhu
33. on 12 Aug 2008 at 9:33 am 33Quan Quach

Madhu, Have you tried using the cftool command? That might do the trick Quan
34. on 23 Aug 2008 at 1:12 pm 34baba

Good stuff here. I was hoping if someone could help me with this problem that I need to get around in an efficient way (i.e I have to repeat this over many row vectors). Say, Ive got 3 vectors :
A = [1 2 3 4];

B = [5 6 7 8]; C = [9 10 11];

(note the unequal dims). And Id like to have a code that gives the following result:
Result = [1; 5; 9; 2; 6; 10; 3; 7; 11; 4; 8];

Thanks in advance for any help!

35. on 23 Aug 2008 at 8:51 pm 35Quan Quach

Hi Baba, Here is my idea:

%first, pad all vectors using NaN so that they are the same length C = [9 10 11 NaN]; %second, put all vectors into matrix form temp = [A;B;C]; %third use the reshape function Result = reshape(temp,numel(temp),1); %fourth, remove all NaNs Result(isnan(Result)) = [];

Quan
36. on 20 Oct 2008 at 5:19 pm 36asur010

Hi Quan, I find your tips very useful and to the point. Thanks for that.. I want to know of a way to find a particular element and its corresponding index from a vector if it is greater than something. The find function usually returns all values which are greater than it, how can I just get the first number which is greater than the specified value. For example I have a vector = [40,50,60,60,70,80,90,91,92,93]; I want to find the first element which is >90 and its corresponding index in the original vector. If I say find (vector>90) it gives all numbers >90. Could you help out please? Thanks. Adi
37. on 05 Nov 2008 at 4:50 pm 37Anonymous

Hi asur, u can use for i=1:numel(vector) if vector(i) > 90 index=i; break

end end
38. on 13 Nov 2008 at 6:32 am 38Graham

Hi, I wonder if there is a built in function that would give me the number of times k appears in a vector ? E.g. vec = [1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 ] where k == 1 ans = 3
39. on 14 Nov 2008 at 5:44 am 39Graham

sorry 4got to add, Hi, I wonder if there is a built in function that would give me the number of times k appears in a vector without using the hist function. ? E.g. vec = [1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 ] where k == 1 ans = 3
40. on 16 Nov 2008 at 1:27 pm 40wladmir

Thank you very much for your help and for your time!!! thank you very much!!!
41. on 22 Dec 2008 at 3:03 pm 41Sathya

Hi asur, you can use, find(vector >90,1) to get the index of the first number greater than 90 in the vector.
42. on 23 Dec 2008 at 12:06 am 42Zane Montgomery

Hi Graham, You could use a very simple for loop to track how many times a number appears in your vector.
soln=0; for n=1:size(vec,2) % gets the number of columns of the row vector if vec(n)==1 soln=soln+1; else end end

43. on 23 Dec 2008 at 10:14 am 43Rob S.

@Graham, Zane, OR, you could shoot the vectorizer at this problem. Something like:
vec = [1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 ] ; % if you want to count how many 1's sum(vec==1)

Hope this helps! Cant find it right now, but there is a great post by Loren about indexing that I think covers logicals like this. Also skim Steves blog for logical operations since theyre used in image processing a lot.

Merry Christmas! Rob

44. on 23 Dec 2008 at 9:39 pm 44Rob S.

@ Tanuj, Since Im on a roll with vectorizing and using logical indexing, I see you had an interesting problem farther up the page. If you need to sum up all the elements of A that are greater than 3, try this:
A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6]; sum(A(A>3))

Read the second line as sum up the elements of A only where the elements of A are greater than 3 I dont want to duplicate what Lorens and Steves blogs have covered about logicals, but this method basically produces a mask vector of 1s and 0s the same size as A. It tells the sum function which elements to include and exclude from its calcs. I also like solutions based on logicals since they very often handle whole vectors at a time, and avoid using loops. Less mess for you, and usually faster code. HTH, Rob
45. on 02 Jan 2009 at 3:55 am 45fawx

hi how do i insert elements into an array by shifting the remaining elements to the right? eg . a=1:5 now insert 8 and 9 between 2 and 3 such that a= 1 2 8 9 3 4 5 thanks
46. on 02 Jan 2009 at 9:37 am 46Rob S.

@ fawx, Unfortunately, this will be a fairly manual operation. I would initialize a new 1D array (lets call it b) of size a + the inserts. Then fill it in with your values. Something like:
% create arrays to start with a = 1:5; inserts = [8 9]; b = zeros(numel(a)+numel(inserts),1); % now fill in your values b(1:2) = a(1:2); b(3:4) = inserts(:); b(5:end) = a(3:end); disp(b);

HTH, Rob

47. on 02 Jan 2009 at 2:59 pm 47Zane Montgomery

@fawx Robs method is extremely good for especially large arrays. Pre-assigning the size of arrays is good practice to improve the processing speed. Another way, using vector concatenation would be
a = 1:5; inserts = [8 9]; % force whatever elements you want between segments of your 1-D array. b=[a(1:3) inserts a(4:end)]

A few less lines, but can be harder for multi-dimensional arrays. p.s. Thanks for the help with logicals Rob
48. on 02 Jan 2009 at 10:48 pm 48fawx

Thanks a lot Rob S. and Zane Montgomery that really helped a lot fawx
49. on 05 Feb 2009 at 8:14 pm 49rahul

Hi Dan, Great tips ! I am stuck with a problem related to sorting of a vector: I have following vector vector = [1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0] What I want to know is how are ones grouped together ? In above vector they are grouped as = 2, 3, 2 How can I sort my vector this way as to reveal the groupings .. Thank you Rahul
50. on 05 Feb 2009 at 8:16 pm 50rahul

In above the ans should be ans = 2,3,3

51. on 12 Mar 2009 at 9:42 pm 51mohammed

hey great work Quan thanks a lot this stuff is great

52. on 02 May 2009 at 6:35 am 52Yo

Hi guys, First let me say that I find this blog superb. Thank you for having it. My problem consist in averaging every 10 elements of an array (G) of size 100 and storing those averages. Here is my solution:

k = 100; G = randn(k,1); Gav=mean(reshape(G,10,k/10));

This save me a lot of time, more than if I used a for loop instead, but still I would like to improve it further if possible. Do you guys have another suggestion? Thank you.
53. on 02 May 2009 at 9:52 am 53Matt

Hello everyone, Im sorry if this has already been answered, but is there no built-in function that returns the elements you remove from an array? Example: a = [1,11,111] I want to return element 2 and 3 to create an array b, leaving a with only its first element intact: a == [1] b == [11,111] Any such operator or do I need to create it myself? Im not a programming guru so Im not certain how to create this functionality in the most efficient way. Thanks in advance, Im sure someone has a great answer to a beginner such as myself ^^
54. on 03 May 2009 at 11:18 pm 54nagendra

to create logic gates by using matlab,program.

55. on 05 May 2009 at 9:14 am 55Yo

Hi Matt, What you could do is before removing some elements of a(:), store them in another vector b(:). I solved your example here:
a = [1,11,111]; b=a(2:3); a(2:3)=[];

You can do more complicated stuff, for instance if you want to remove the elements of a(:) equal to 11:
a = [1,11,111]; b=a(a==11); a(a==11)=[];

-Yo
56. on 16 Jun 2009 at 5:25 am 56Johan, Jeppe

We have a vector with some values given by a function. We want to duplicate this vector N times, so we get a 2 dimensional matrix. Eg, { 1 0 1 0 0 1 } Our vector After the operation we want this result: 101001 101001 101001

101001 . . . (N) times Our try:

function Y = jail(X,p) [r,c] = size(X); %We want our duplicated array to be of this size.. t M F Y = = = = 1:1:c; sin((pi*t)/p).^2 ; repmat(M,r,c); F;

But this doesnt give us a 2 dimensional matrix. Thanks in advance

57. on 16 Jun 2009 at 7:12 am 57Zane Montgomery

@Johan&Jeppe, Im curious if the matrix youre getting is 1-D or 3-D+? I would think it should still output as 2-D, just not the style that you want. Lets call your vector a. Since you want to make a new matrix that is a column vector of many a vectors, your repmat should be repmat(M,N,1) where N is the N times you wanted above (aka r in your code)
function Y = jail(X,p) [r,c] = size(X); %We want our duplicated array to be of this size.. t M F Y = = = = 1:1:c; %1:c works too, by default it increments 1 every time sin((pi*t)/p).^2 ; repmat(M,r,1); %changed F;

This will stack the matrix/vector on top of itself r times. Hope that helps! -Zane
58. on 17 Jun 2009 at 2:26 am 58Johan, Jeppe

Thanks Zane for the quick response, this solved our problem.
59. on 20 Jun 2009 at 5:46 pm 59Nick Iversen

How do I return the, say, first element of an array expression without storing the expression into a temporary variable first? Eg
result = first(expression); % rather than tmp = expression; result = tmp(1);

60. on 23 Jun 2009 at 8:53 pm 60Tariq

Hi .. Its really usefull wesite.. I need to know how to get the average of group of vectorsLets say we have: A=[1 3 5] B=[4 7 1] C=[8 9 0] is there anyway to get the average of A,B and C??
61. on 23 Jun 2009 at 9:06 pm 61bluray

I wanted to insert the zero column vector in the matrix. I have this matrix [1 0 0 1 0011 1110 0 1 0 1] How do I convert it to [1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 00001010 10101000 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0] Thanks
62. on 25 Jun 2009 at 12:43 pm 62Circshifter

Hi Quan, Thanks for all of the tips. I HATED shifting vectors! Its not practical in most cases. Quan, you should check out the circshift command its easy and you just enter the ammount that you want the vector shifted (you do however, have to convert the vector into a colum vector):
u = [1:10]; u1 = (circshift(u',3))' % This shifts vector "u" 3 places to the right, and places the last three elements % in the first three places!

63. on 27 Jun 2009 at 10:19 pm 63nirveda

hey, ive done a blunder by performing a set of operations on the wrong array, due to typing error. The array content has now changed..i.e. its size has increased and values modified.Is there any way to rollback this to the original state? or do i have to recode by rote? theres really lengthy stuff preceeding it.. thanks, nirveda
64. on 30 Jun 2009 at 3:23 pm 64jose velez

How would I create a 200 by 100 array

size=250*100; time=1:size;

time=reshape(A,250,100)

Now how would i filled the values of this array to [1 2 3 4 ..... 101 102 103... 201 202 203 ]
65. on 06 Jul 2009 at 3:13 pm 65sf

jose velez: To create 200 x 100 array:

myarray = ones(200,100);

To fill it in with what you wanted:

for index = 1:200 myarray(index,:) = (index*100 - 99):(index*100); end

There might be a better way than the for loop, but this will do the job quite nicely.
66. on 12 Jul 2009 at 5:16 pm 66Jose

The issue: I have two arrays filled with important data. Array1 is an array of size 31 x 31 array Array2 is an array of size 31 x 21 I tried this but it only it only if the array is 1 dimensional. for i=1:9, t = [t 0]; end Example array= [1 2; 1 2;] how do i transform the previous array to look like array =[1 2 0 0 0; 1 2 0 0 0;] Keep in mind I cant do it manually it has to be by MATLAB code because is a 31 x 31 array ( lots of numbers) Thank you for your efforts.
67. on 14 Jul 2009 at 8:04 am 67Zane Montgomery

Jose, Try this out:

%Array1 is 31x31 %Array2 is 31x21 ArrayNew=[Array2 zeros(31,10)]

This concatenates a zero array of size 3110 after you original 3121 array2. You can play around with that, but it is very specific on dimensions of each array. This can also be

expanded/parametrized for an MxN array > MxM array. Good luck! -Zane
68. on 14 Jul 2009 at 9:53 am 68Jose

That worked Zane you are a genius.

69. on 15 Jul 2009 at 10:23 am 69Anonymous
70. 71.% hi guys, i'new @ matlab, this very good matlab site 72.% i could need some help plz 73.% i have wind speed data (winspd) & wind direction in different array 74.% i want to calculate wind and direction data so i have north-south component 75.% which contain wind speed and north (+)- south direction(-). 76. 77.%my array 78.windspd = [1,2,3;4,5,6;7,8,9] 79.winddir = [30,60,120;135,180,210;225,250,300] 80. 81.% code not running yet, i have problem how to calculate in array with 2 82.% variabel & calculate north-south direction in winddir so i have north-south wind speed component 83.% north(0), east (90), south(180) & west (270) 84.% correct me if i'm wrong with the if logic calculation i'm still new in matlab 85. 86.if winddir (find(winddir>=0 & winddir=90 & winddir=180 & winddir=270 & winddir<300)) 87. winddir = cos(winddir*(pi/180)) 88.end 89. 90.north_south = winspd .* winddir 91. 92.%north-south component excpected result 93.north_south = [0.86602, 1, -1.5; -2.8284, -5, -5.19615;-4.94974,0.34202, 4.5] 94.

95. % many thx be4 96. on 15 Jul 2009 at 10:30 am 70Budhie

oops forget to fill my namethx be4 guys.

97. on 17 Jul 2009 at 7:38 am 71Zane Montgomery

Hi Budhie, Somethings wrong with your if statement, but thats not how I usually code in MATLAB, but let me show you a cool tip. It looks like youre just trying to convert the original winddir vector from degrees to radians and then taking the N/S (cosine) component of it? Two ways to do that:
WinddirRad=winddir*pi/180; WinddirNS=cos(WinddirRad);

But even easier, MATLAB has built in capability to handle degree measurements:
WinddirNS=cosd(winddir); % and you're done!

cosd(),sind(),tand() are your functions if your angle is in degrees. And to get your desired solution:
north_south = windspd.*WinddirNS;

That got me what you were looking for, hopefully it works for you too. -Zane
98. on 31 Jul 2009 at 1:51 am 72Budhie

HI Zane, its works, thanks for the cool tips . yes i want to separete the wind component. but i still have problem doing operation in array. i want to do something like this :
a = [1,2,3;4,5,6;7,8,9] %wind speed b = [30,60,120;135,180,210;225,250,300] % wind direction % i want to do operation between 2 array, but only on wind direction selected value and keep other value in array a that not selected. % how i can do that in matlab? if (b >=90)&(b=180)&(b<270) a = a*cosd(b-180) end end %expected results in 3x3 array a = [1,2,2.59807;2.82842,-5,-5.19615;-4.94974,-2.73616,9]

thx be4, -budhie99. on 31 Jul 2009 at 1:53 am 73Budhie

hmm the matlab code doesnt properly display my code a = [1,2,3;4,5,6;7,8,9] %wind speed b = [30,60,120;135,180,210;225,250,300] % wind direction % i want to do operation between 2 array, but only on wind direction selected value and keep other value in array a that not selected. % how i can do that in matlab? if (b >=90)&(b=180)&(b<270) a = a*cosd(b-180) end end %expected results in 33 array

a = [1,2,2.59807;2.82842,-5,-5.19615;-4.94974,-2.73616,9] thx be4, -budhie100.on 31 Jul 2009 at 1:55 am 74Budhie

sry if double posting:D if (b >=90)&(b=180)&(b<270) a = a*cosd(b-180) end end

101.on 31 Jul 2009 at 1:55 am 75Budhie

if (b >=90)&(b=180)&(b<270) a = a*cosd(b-180) end

102.on 31 Jul 2009 at 1:57 am 76Budhie

if (b >=90) & (b<180) a = a.*sind (b-90)

103.on 31 Jul 2009 at 1:58 am 77Budhie

else if (b >=180)&(b<270) a = a*cosd(b-180)

104.on 31 Jul 2009 at 1:59 am 78Budhie

end end sry doesnt display m if correctly thx be4, -budhie105.on 03 Aug 2009 at 7:26 pm 79Kalo

How do I make a plot using h=pcolor for 2101 matrix

106.on 14 Sep 2009 at 1:57 am 80Malaika

Hello, I am relatively new to Matlab, and I am looking to a solution for. I have a matrix for e.g. A = [ 2.1 1.2 2.3 1.3 1.3 3.4 5 2 6 8.4 5.4 5.4 3.4 5 2 4.4 2.2 4.5] now there appears 3.4, 5 and 2 twice consecutively in the above code, and I see it as a pattern. I need some solution to extract these values at a certain min threshold to max threshold sequence. So, how can i do it to extract a particular pattern out of the code. Alternatively I have seen in this very useful blog that values greater than / less than in a vector can be replaced by some, but is there some solution that a block of values be

replaced by some value for e.g. all values greater than 3 and less than 7 be changed to 0 in a vector. I will highly appreciate help in this regards, /Malaika.
107.on 13 Oct 2009 at 4:53 am 81Anonymous

I have 2 vectors say a = [1 2 3] and b= [4 5 6]. I want to do something like this c(1) = min( a(1) b(1), a(1) b(2), a(1) b(3)); c(2) = min( a(2) b(1), a(2) b(2), a(2) b(3)); c(3) = min( a(3) b(1), a(3) b(2), a(3) b(3)); Can i do this without using loop with the help of array indexing or vectorising?
108.on 20 Oct 2009 at 5:00 pm 82Tim

hi, Is there a efficient way to replace all values in the array that is greater than 0 with 1s and rest with zeros while maintaining the dimensions of the array. e.g. a={ -1.2, 0.12, 1.5 , -0.009, 2} to a={ 0,1,1,0,1} great site by the way.
109.on 21 Oct 2009 at 7:37 am 83Zane Montgomery

Tim, Id recommend creating a new variable b to store you 0s/1s array, but other than that its easy.
a=[-1.2, 0.12, 1.5 , -0.009, 2]; b=a>0; %note: zero gets mapped to a zero logical

And youre done! 2 quick notes: 1) B is an array of logicals 2) Make sure youre using array notation [ ], not cell notation { } The cells is an array of 11 arrays and youll have to access each element individually to evaluate. Good luck, Zane
110.on 09 Nov 2009 at 2:44 pm 84lokise+o

@ malaika some pseudocode : you could try to get indices find occurences of first value and sav index array idx = find(args(1)) and loop add + 1 after each cycle to the idxold+1 (6 13) => idxnew (7 14) and so on test next argument like this (you can take length, sum, mean or numel of idx array) if mean(A(idxnew)) == val2 continue and increment pattern counter else break loop condition then would depend on flexibel vector length 3.4 5 2 testvector = vect(1:pos) hope it was helpful

111.on 11 Nov 2009 at 3:40 am 85packiyaraj

hi everyone , This website is really useful for us. plz i need a help . How to group an array elements within range. plz help me.
112.on 12 Dec 2009 at 6:25 pm 86Daithi

Hi I am looking to convert a number to a 5 bit binary digit. Say 5 for example;

>> dec2bin(5) ans = 101

I am looking for a 5 bit answer, 00101 Any help is appreciated, Thanks

113.on 15 Dec 2009 at 2:19 pm 87Zane Montgomery

Daithi, Try dec2bin(x,b) where x is your decimal number and b is the number of bits. GL, Zane
114.on 03 Jan 2010 at 5:40 am 88krishh

I have a array of dimension 5X16 ( 5 rows and 16 columns ) . I want to separate it into 2 matrices having dimensions 5X8 and 5X8 with odd columns in one group and even columns in other group using matlab
115.on 15 Jan 2010 at 11:14 pm 89hcu

hii all.. i hav a variable x=[1 3 4] i need to convert each value i.e. x(1,1), x(1,2), x(1,3) into binary and store in an array eg: Bin=[001; 011; 100].can anyone plz help me in writing d code for it in matlab?? Thanks in advance!! i/p: [1 3 4] o/p:[001;011;100]
116.on 27 Jan 2010 at 3:05 pm 90Murphy

how do you remove all the even numbers from a vector?

117.on 01 Feb 2010 at 11:43 am 91SPQR

Murphey, a = [1 2 3 4 5 6] a(rem(a,2) == 1) = [] The remainder function will flag all odd numbers with a 1, and then you simply ask which are equal to one and destroy.
118.on 01 Feb 2010 at 11:52 am 92SPQR

krishh, Heres an example: a = [1 2 3 4;5 6 7 8] b = a(:, 1:2:end) % odd columns c = a(:, 2:2:end) % even columns The b and c equations would remain the same for any size a.
119.on 12 Feb 2010 at 1:39 pm 93Hank

I have to vectors A and B. I need to form a new vector C that looks as follows. A=[1 3 5] B=[2 4 6] %Below is what C should be C=[1 2 3 4 5 6]
120.on 12 Feb 2010 at 1:40 pm 94Hank

I have to vectors A and B. I need to form a new vector C that looks as follows. A=[1 3 5] B=[2 4 6] %Below is what C should be C=[1 2 3 4 5 6] Thank you very much for you time
121.on 17 Feb 2010 at 8:07 am 95SPQR

Hank, Essentially do the opposite of my last example: A=[1 3 5] B=[2 4 6] C = zeros(1,length(A)*2); % initialize C C(1:2:end) = A % place As contents into C starting at 1, then 3, etc. C(2:2:end) = B % place Bs contents into C starting at 2, then 4, etc. And a correction to comment #91 I obviously removed all the odd numbers instead of the evens as asked. Change: a(rem(a,2) == 1) = [] to: a(rem(a,2) == 0) = [] this will flag the even numbers for removal.
122.on 24 Feb 2010 at 2:18 am 96sangeeta

[1 0 2 0 3 0 4 0] should becom [1 2 3 4]
123.on 26 Feb 2010 at 8:54 am 97SPQR

sangeeta, See Post #92

124.on 26 Feb 2010 at 10:28 am 98Anonymous

[199 0 185 0 214 0 63 0 0 188 0 207 0 158 0 89 186 0 201 0 194 0 63 0 0 201 0 196 0 159 0 86 196 0 162 0 204 0 55 0] in this matrix all zeros should be deleted and resulting matrix should be [199 185 214 63 188 207 158 89 186 201 194 63 201 196 159 86]
125.on 01 Mar 2010 at 7:21 am 99SPQR

There is a problem when attempting to delete the zeros or any value from a matrix. If there is not a square data set contained within a larger, padded set you will not be able to operate on it efficiently. I think you need to ask yourself why are you arriving at this position? What operation is forcing you to take such an action? The best solution would be to come up with a better algorithm that wont leave you with your back against the wall. Again, the example above is quite symmetric. It would require initializing a new matrix and then filling it in as my posts above show.
126.on 16 Mar 2010 at 2:23 am 100bluray

I need to select 2 elements from each column depending on the index. Lets say the matrix is [1 3 8 692 589 7 6 3] If we have an index [1 1 1], the resulting matrix is [1 3 8 6 9 2] If we have an index [1 2 1], the resulting matrix is [1 8 8 6 6 2] May I know how do we do that? Thank you
127.on 19 Mar 2010 at 8:01 pm 101sonal

can u tell me how to convert the text file containing ascii code into binary number and store in array in matlab..
128.on 22 Mar 2010 at 2:47 am 102Stud

Hello,

how can i make from the following line: 555556666777889 Matrix like this: 155555 016666 001777 000188 000019 000001 Has anyone ideas? Thank you!
129.on 26 Mar 2010 at 9:29 am 103ali

how I can change the position of one element without changing the size of the matrix. x=[ 0 1 1 0 1]; to x= [ 1 1 0 0 1]; Thanks
130.on 26 Mar 2010 at 9:35 am 104ali

how I can change the position of one element without changing the size of the matrix. x=[ 0 1 1 0 1]; to x= [ 1 1 0 0 1]; Thanks
131.on 28 Mar 2010 at 5:06 am 105waqas

hi i want to remove the row of zeros for a matrix 1111 2222 0000 5555 to 1111 2222 5555 i tried too many way but couldnt find the right way.
132.on 01 Apr 2010 at 2:12 pm 106Zane Montgomery

@ali Im not quite sure I know what youre getting at, but you could use something like:
x=[ 0 1 1 0 1]; x_new=[x(3) x(2) x(1) x(4:5)]

This is very specific to this problem and gets trickier the more times elements need to be swapped. It works well for large segments of unchanged vectors like you see in the last vector element. It could be x(4:500) if those are all unchanged which saves lots of time.

@waqas Thanks to a recently inspired video by Doug @TMW (http://blogs.mathworks.com/videos/) this solution is very easy. If a is your original matrix:
a(3,:)=[]

will remove the entire third row. enjoy!

133.on 09 Apr 2010 at 4:46 am 107Matt

Hi, Ive got a problem. I define a matrix like this for exampel:
>> j = [1,6,6;1,2,3;6,5,4] j = 1 1 6 6 2 5 6 3 4

Now if I do this:
length(j(j==6))

I get 3 of course. What I want to do is count any number of occurences per row as one occurence, that is; even if one row contains 1, 2 or 3 sixes it should only return 1. Is this possible? I hope it is clear what I want to do.
>> j = [1,6,6;1,2,3;6,5,4;6,6,6;1,2,2;4,3,2] j = 1 1 6 6 1 4 ans = 3 <-- amount of rows containing at least one six 6 2 5 6 2 3 6 3 4 6 2 2 <-- this row contains at least 1 six <-- this row contains no sixes <-- this row contains at least 1 six <-- this row contains at least 1 six <-- this row contains no sixes > occurence(j, 6) <-- pseudofunction

134.on 09 Apr 2010 at 4:50 am 108Matt

Sorry for the post, it seems to have trouble interpreting special characters such as > and <. I hope it is readable anyway. What I am asking is whether there is any way to count each row in a matrix once if it contains at least one six for example.
135.on 13 Apr 2010 at 3:45 pm 109Zane Montgomery

Hi Matt, Multiple ways to do this, but i think the most elegant way is to use the find command. I

switched your j variable to a because j is a MATLAB variable for the imaginary number sqrt(-1)
a = [1,6,6;1,2,3;6,5,4;6,6,6;1,2,2;4,3,2] [row,col] = find(a==6); length(unique(row))

I highly recommend you figure out how each line does what it does. Best, Zane
136.on 14 Apr 2010 at 9:10 pm 110Gumah

hi i want to add one column of zero whenever column of zero is exist 101101 202202 303303 505505 to 10011001 20022002 30033003 50055005 any body know how to do that ??
137.on 30 Apr 2010 at 8:19 pm 111emmi

The code at entry number 24 is very nice. However if I have a matrix after applying this, the matrix becomes a row vector. How can I use this, and let the matrix stay as it is? 24.How to remove all elements greater than 5 from a vector.
myVector = [10 0 0 1 12 3 0 0 4 5 1 12 0 0]; %index contains indices of elements within myVector which are greater than 5 index = find(myVector > 5); myVector(index) = []

138.on 30 Apr 2010 at 8:36 pm 112emmi

Lets say my matrix is sth like this: I wan to get rid of the zero lines. But I want to preserve the matrix. How can I do that? Secondly, if I have similar matrices in a multidimensional matrix, is there a difference? Lets say I have 3 of these matrices in A(:,:,1), A(:,:,2) and A(:,:,3) and I want to get rid of the zeros from all of these matrices. Thanks in advance for the help.
-0.2498 292.3663 -0.2333 304.3396 -0.9092 -0.9699 0.3255 0.3273 0.3564 0.3449 0.7989 0.7641 0.2441 0.2366 37.7547 34.5573

-0.1999 302.9826 -0.2063 296.5975 -0.2159 286.3701 -0.2189 273.8610 -0.2156 267.9965 -0.2138 265.1570 -0.2098 263.9478 -0.2090 256.1645 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

-0.9938 -0.9832 -0.9638 -0.9378 -0.9474 -0.9639 -0.9597 -0.9472 0 0 0

0.3223 0.3317 0.3346 0.3334 0.3348 0.3315 0.3267 0.3249 0 0 0

0.3256 0.3219 0.3153 0.3019 0.2959 0.2879 0.2791 0.2740 0 0 0

0.7279 0.7204 0.7109 0.7017 0.6668 0.6314 0.6331 0.6209

0.2234 0.2324 0.2302 0.2298 0.2279 0.2147 0.2031 0.1980 0 0 0

29.0925 29.1262 29.1044 27.7276 26.7218 25.6377 24.3022 23.6842 0 0 0

139.on 03 May 2010 at 2:19 pm 113Zane Montgomery

Emmi, the most recent posts in the comment area show this pretty well. Try those out and get back with any other questions.
140.on 05 May 2010 at 1:43 pm 114Drew

Hi, I am wanting to plot both of these files on the same graph for the functions below: x=0:0.1:3*pi; y1=sin(x+0.5); y2=90.*sin(x-0.5); what would go on this line to plot both files on the graph? Thanks in advance!
141.on 09 May 2010 at 2:53 am 115sonny

Hi, I have a question on removing multiple rows from a matrix. I knew we can remove rows that we want but specifying all rows index. But my matrix is quite big and how I can remove all the even row without specifying all the rows index? A=eye(100); indicesToRemove = [2,4,6,8,10, ......... 100]; %i want to make this flexible or how to make a simple loop calling the indicesToRemove? The output A will have the size of [50x100]. Thanks in advance.
142.on 10 Jun 2010 at 9:17 am 116fado

hi, i want to remove multiple lines (7*i) index ,But my array is big (4461X1)

can you help me plz? Thanks .

143.on 13 Jun 2010 at 2:41 am 117jyoti sahu

prob:[4 5 9 10 13 15 18 19 6 9 11 14 4 6 9 10 3 6 7 2 2] this is 1D array. answer should be [4 5 9 10 13 15 18 19 6 11 14 4 3 2] how can i reach this answer?
144.on 28 Jun 2010 at 2:35 am 118Bertus

@sonny/fado, I would do it like this: A=eye(100); for i=2:2:100 A(i,:)=[]; end

145.on 28 Jun 2010 at 2:40 am 119Bertus

oh btw, an easy way of converting a matrix to a vector: matrix=magic(5); vector=matrix(:);

146.on 28 Jun 2010 at 10:01 am 120SPQR

Sonny, Fado, and Bertus: You want to use logical indexing. Instead of using the for loop, as bertus did, you simply index into the matrix all at once. Instead of A=eye(100); for i=2:2:100 A(i,:)=[]; end You directly call the rows and annihilate A = eye(100); A(2:2:end,:) = []; Keep in mind that my solution works for any size matrix to get rid of the even rows. For odd rows you would write A(1:2:end,:). For columns you call them A(:,2:2:end). It keeps going for higher dimensions. Im not entirely sure about fados case whether he wants to annihilate every seventh row, or seven rows in a block. I would either call: A(1:7:end,:) = []; or A(1:7,:) = [];
147.on 29 Jun 2010 at 1:40 pm 121Jason

Greetings:

A=[1:0.1:4]'; B=[1;1;1;1;5;5;5;5;1;1;1;1;1;1;7;7;7;7;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1]; C=A(find(A>=B));

C of course is a vector of values in which A >= B:

C = 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.8 1.9 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.8 2.9 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 4

What I need however is to include the first element in the subsection that is not included with the find. So for example:
C = 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.3 index that is 1.8 1.9 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 index that is 2.8 2.9 3

% <-- first element in the array associated with the not included using find() in the first group.

% <--- first element in the array associated with the not included using find() in the second group.

3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 4

Im having some trouble explaining this so I hope it make sense. Please email if you can help. And great site by the way!!!
148.on 30 Jun 2010 at 9:01 am 122Zane Montgomery

yup, lost. dunno what your group and subsections are referring to. Can you make a smaller simplified example?
149.on 30 Jun 2010 at 1:28 pm 123Jason

find() of course returns the indicies that match, so in my example above:

idx = find(A>=B); idy = find(A<B);

returns the indicies from A where A is greater than B. Lets say for example the above code returns the indicies:
idx = 1 2 3 4 10 11 12 16 17 18 idy = 5 6 7 8 9 14 15

So at index 1-4, 10-12, and 16-18, the element in A is >= than in B. What I need is to return the first index in each excluded group the first element in each group where A < B. Call this situation X. So for example:
idx =

1 2 3 4 5 <--- This is X 10 11 12 13 <--- This is X 16 17 18

So index number 5 and index number 13 appear where A < B but they are included in the vector. 5 and 13 are elements in idy.
150.on 30 Jun 2010 at 3:31 pm 124Zane Montgomery

Ahh I think I see that. Im guessing there are multiple ways to do it but Ill try to explain the how of what Id do. Key: Keep everything in terms of indices until the very end since thats what you are comparing. And then the very last step should be to pull in the value of the specific indices to your solution vector. My method involves checking to find increments of 1 in your indices and returns the index + 1 which are your desired additions (5 and 13 in your example). The final line adds 5 and 13 into your idx index array. One note: the final line only allows for 2 new indices to be added. If you know how many, you should be able to follow the pattern. If it is variable, I would recommend using another for loop (1:number of new indices) and adding each new one to idx every iteration.
vi=[]; for n=2:length(idx) if idx(n) > idx(n-1)+1 vi=[vi n-1]; else end end m=idx(vi)+1; idz=[idx(1:vi(1)); m(1); idx(vi(1)+1:vi(2));m(2); idx(vi(2)+1:end)];

Hopefully thats a start and you can expand from their to your desired end goal. There might be a more elegant way of doing it, but it should do the trick. Best, Zane
151.on 01 Jul 2010 at 11:59 am 125SPQR

Jason, A more robust, and I believe elegant, solution is below: A=[1:0.1:4]; B=[1;1;1;1;5;5;5;5;1;1;1;1;1;1;7;7;7;7;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1];

C=A(A>=B); D = zeros(length(A),1); D(A>=B) = A(A>=B); D(D == 0 circshift(D == 0,1)) = A(D == 0 circshift(D == 0,1)); D(D == 0) = []; So we create D equal in size to A -> place all logically true values into D, respectively -> find all logically false indexes (D == 0) and then use cirshift to find the leading edge, place leading-edge false data into D -> get rid of extra zeros
152.on 13 Jul 2010 at 6:59 am 126Jason

Wow, thanks guys. Both solutions work but like SPQR says, the second one is a bit more robust for my purposes. Im still working to implement the code so Im not sure if it will work as I hope (albeit the code provided here does EXACTLY what I asked for). Thanks.
153.on 09 Aug 2010 at 12:42 pm 127Andre

My question How can I get every data at every 5 numbers in a vector. For example:
A = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... (hundreds of numbers)

And I have a data every 5 datas, like: Result:

Result = 1 5 9 13 ... (hundreds of numbers)

Thanks a lot for all

154.on 16 Aug 2010 at 8:39 am 128Zane Montgomery

Andre,

This can be done quite easily, you want to sample your column vector every n index values. It looks like your solution starts at 1 and then gets every 4 after that, not 5. Thats an easy fix regardless.
A=1:2000; %creates your vector from 1-2000 (as an example), same as 1:1:2000 sol=A(1:4:end); %starts at 1 and captures every 4th value after that until end of vector A

155.on 16 Aug 2010 at 10:14 pm 129anita

Hi all, I need the matlab code for duplicate elimination in an array kindly help me..i tried using the following code. couldnt get .
clc; clear all; close all; a=[1 1 1 3 6 6 5 7 7 7 7 ]; k=1; b(k)=a(1); l=numel(a); for i=2:l for j=1:k if a(i)==b(j) break; else k=k+1; b(k)=a(i); display(b); break end end end display(b); %insert code here

Thank U..
156.on 18 Aug 2010 at 10:45 am 130SPQR

anita, a=[1 1 1 3 6 6 5 7 7 7 7 ]; b = unique(a)

157.on 01 Sep 2010 at 3:16 pm 131Dingo

I have a one column vector that contains a series of azimuthal angles between 0 and 180 ex. Azimuth=

0 10 156 26 120 56 180 etc I would like to replace all the values between 90 and 135 with 135. So if Azimuth>90 and Azimuth<135 then Azimuth = 135. How can I go about doing that in Matlab? Any help is much appreciated!
158.on 02 Sep 2010 at 7:42 am 132Zane Montgomery

Here ya go Dingo:
Azimuth(Azimuth<135 & Azimuth>90)=135;

159.on 08 Sep 2010 at 12:55 am 133Tannistha

Thanks a lot, i have been slogging over filtering an array and a cellarray of strings. i did something to get the position of the elements that will stay ,in an array and had no idea how can i keep only those elements whose position was recorded and your vector tutorial gave me the idea thanks a lot
160.on 09 Sep 2010 at 4:38 am 134tapos

hi, how can i extract and change data from a multi-dimensional matrix? i can create a matrix containing all zeros or ones using v=ones(8,8,8); then i need to modify some of the elements using conditional statement depending upon the position of the elements. can anybody help me?
161.on 09 Sep 2010 at 10:58 pm 135Zane Montgomery

Tapos, youll have to be a bit more specific. Do you have data or a more detailed need? If you want to call an entire row, column, or depth value, the colon : mean all. Lets say you have an 8x8x8 3D matrix like you described. To get 1 point of the matrix use:
x=v(2, 2, 2)

To get 1 (row) vector of the matrix use:

x=v(:, 2, 2)

To get 1 (column) vector of the matrix use:

x=v(2, :, 2)

To get a 2D depth array of the matrix use:

x=v(:, :, 2)

etc Just keep playing around with those and look at other comments/questions to hopefully find your answer. good luck.
162.on 11 Sep 2010 at 1:27 pm 136John. S.

How do you remove all even integers out of a vector. Lets Say vec=[45 8 2 6 98 55 45 -48 75]
163.on 13 Sep 2010 at 10:14 am 137Zane Montgomery

John. S., Try this trick:

vec(~mod(vec,2))=[]

I encourage you to figure out what that does! Best, Zane

164.on 18 Sep 2010 at 5:30 pm 138rudra

how is it that as we run our for loop, the values of an array are appended? lets say we have a nested function, how do we create arrays as the for loop proceeds?
165.on 20 Sep 2010 at 12:19 pm 139Zane Montgomery

I think I know what youre talking about Rudra. If you want to start from a blank array, then fill it with a new value every iteration try this:
xx=[] %preallocate your answer vector 'xx' %for loop code here for yy=42 %this is your calculated value that changes every iteration xx=[xx yy]; %this is the key code here that appends the new value to the end of the old xx vector end %end of for loop

good luck, Zane

166.on 21 Sep 2010 at 10:28 am 140Jason

Greetings all: Imagine I have two 2-dim arrays: xs = [ 59, 24.5, 25.5, 26.5, 4; 1727, 21.5, 22.5, 23.5, 9; 1840, 21.5, 22.5, 23.5, 9; 2252, 22.0, 23.0, 24.0, 4;

2445, 22.0, 23.0, 24.0, 4 ] [ x11, x12, x13, x14, x15; x21, x22, x23, x24, x25; x31, x32, x33, x34, x35; x41, x42, x43, x44, x45; x51, x52, x53, x54, x55 ] ys= [ 159, 124.5, 125.5, 126.5; 1227, 121.5, 122.5, 123.5; 1340, 121.5, 122.5, 123.5; 1452, 122.0, 123.0, 124.0; 2945, 122.0, 123.0, 124.0 ] [ y11, y12, y13, y14, y15; y21, y22, y23, y24, y25; y31, y32, y33, y34, y35; y41, y42, y43, y44, y45; y51, y52, y53, y54, y55 ] Assume the first column of each matrix is a timestamp which can be compared to each other (e.g. TS0 < TS1 == True). Im using the minutes and seconds only for sake of brevety (e.g. 59 is 59 seconds after the hour/minute; 1727 is 17 minutes 27 seconds after the hour, etc) The return value must be a third matrix, nm, where the first timestamp column will survive and the remaining columns will be joined in one of two ways: 1. First way is to join the arrays if either element has changed. So the result should look like this: nm = [ 159, 24.5, 25.5, 26.5, 4, 124.5, 125.5, 126.5; 1227, 24.5, 25.5, 26.5, 4, 121.5, 122.5, 123.5; 1452, 24.5, 25.5, 26.5, 4, 122.0, 123.0, 124.0; 1727, 21.5, 22.5, 23.5, 9, 122.0, 123.0, 124.0; 2252, 22.0, 23.0, 24.0, 4, 122.0, 123.0, 124.0; ] [ y11, x12, x13, x14, x15, y12, y13, y14; % element in y changes; x does not y21, x12, x13, x14, x15, y22, y23, y24; % element in y changes; x does not y41, x12, x13, x14, x15, y42, y43, y44; % element in y changes; x does not x21, x22, x23, x24, x25, y42, y43, y44; % element in y does not change; x does x41, x42, x43, x44, x45, y42, y43, y44; % element in y does not change; x does ]

2. Second way is to join the arrays if both elements have changed. So the result should look like this: nm = [ 159, 24.5, 25.5, 26.5, 4, 124.5, 125.5; 1727, 21.5, 22.5, 23.5, 9, 122.0, 123.0 ] [ y11, x12, x13, x14, x15, y12, y13, y14 x21, x22, x23, x24, x25, y42, y43, y44 ] Ive made far too many attempts to post code here, but essentially Ive been able to return a matrix to (kind of) match case 1: [ 159 124.5 125.5 126.5; 1227 121.5 122.5 123.5; 1452 122.0 123.0 124.0; 1727 21.5 22.5 23.5 9; 2252 22.0 23.0 24.0 4 ] but this is not complete of course because it does not actually join the arrays. Im new in MATLAB and appeal to the community for help!
167.on 21 Sep 2010 at 3:27 pm 141Zane Montgomery

Jason, im trying to go through the logic here but its a bit confusing not knowing the problem or the same level of detail you do. Im not sure how youre comparing your matrices or how you get the desired matrix value you want (one confusion is your ys matrix is 54, but your variable ys matrix is 55 while all other inputs are 55 too; are you missing a column in ys?). It looks like you need some help creating the logicals of the comparator and then apply that to concatenating 2 matrices in different ways depending on the logical value. Summary. Im not sure how your values are changed in the following sentences: 1. First way is to join the arrays if either element has changed. 2. Second way is to join the arrays if both elements have changed. Could you give an example using 33 matrix perhaps? ttys.
168.on 22 Sep 2010 at 5:16 am 142Jason

Thanks for the response this is a bit difficult for me to explain, but here goes: The arrays represent price series for derivative (credit default swaps) securities. The goal of the project is to use the joined matrix to run robust regressions (OLS rejection, winsor, ORD, etc.). The securities trade infrequenty without a closing price like stocks so we cannot compare them arbitrarily by lining them in up in series. So the two methods I outlined are ways to join the series in ways suitable for regression analysis.

For sake of argument, use the first two columns of the matricies column 1 representing a timestamp and column 2 representing the price. X starts at price 24.5 at time 59 (first row) and does not change until it changes to price 21.5 at time 1727 (second row). In the meantime, price Y changes from 124.5 at time 159 (first row) to 121.5 at time 1227 (second row). So at this point, nm should have two rows: 159, 24.5, 25.5, 26.5, 4, 124.5, 125.5, 126.5; 1227, 24.5, 25.5, 26.5, 4, 121.5, 122.5, 123.5; Column 1 is the timestamp from matrix y. Columns 2 5 are the values from matrix x (note the value is the same in both rows because the value did not change between time 159 and 1227). Columns 6 8 are the values from matrix y (note the values differ in each row because the y values change at time 159 and 1227). Y does not change again until time 1452 to price 122. So Y changes three total times. While Y is changing from time 159, x is not changing. So if we were to put time times in order (column 1 of both matricies), the times would be: 59 from x < the x value from this timestamp persists at each y value change below until at least the next x change at time 1840 159 from y 1227 from y 1340 from y 1452 from y 1840 from x 2252 from x 2445 from x 2945 from y The only time we record a price is when one or the other change from the previous value.
169.on 22 Sep 2010 at 7:58 am 143Zane Montgomery

Ill check that out and edit this post if/when i get a chance, but in the meantime, you can post on the MATLAB Central (http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/) forums where magnitudes more people will view your question
170.on 24 Sep 2010 at 8:27 am 144Jason

Ha ha I did and got no response Ive come to a workable solution altering the program elsewhere, thanks for the response
171.on 25 Sep 2010 at 6:03 am 145Fess I.
172.Hi, 173.I have been trying to selectively pick a row from a matrix dimension of 4,5 using the index. Here's my code. 174. 175.d = rand(4,5); %randomly generate 4-by-5 matrix 176.indx = round((size(d)-1)*rand(1,1)+); % finding indices of the matrix

177. 178.% Here am trying to randomly obtain any row from the matrix 179.for i = 1:size(d) 180. indxr = d(indx(i),:); 181.end 182.But, I got this error message: ??? Attempted to access d(5,:); index out of bounds because size(d)=[4,5]. 183. 184.Then, I used this for loop below, but it does obtain a row from the matrix, but it is same row every time I run it. I wanted to be able to obtain different row on each iteration. 185. 186.for i = 1:size(d) 187. indxr = d(indx(i),:); 188.end 189. 190.Do you have any solution or idea on how I can get it to work. The basic idea is to randomly select any row from the matrix

191.on 27 Sep 2010 at 2:57 am 146Shaps

hi.. This is SHAPS.. I hav a array of strings stored in a variable A within a if loop.. this variable is getting overwritten everytime.. I want it to be stored seperately.. I mean first time when it enters the if loop it shd be stored in A0 next tym when it enters it shd be in A1 and so on.. how can i do it? can you pls help..
192.on 27 Sep 2010 at 2:59 am 147Shaps

hi.. this is shaps.. i hav a array of strings stored in a variable A within a if loop.. this variable is getting overwritten evytime.. i want the value of A to be stored during each iteration of if loop in the form of A0,A1,A2.. i mean A0 should hav first set of data then A2 next set of data.. how can i do it.. can you pls help..
193.on 27 Sep 2010 at 3:44 am 148Shaps

hi.. This is shaps.. I hav a array of strings stored in a variable A within a if loop.. this variable is getting overwritten everytime.. I want it to be stored seperately.. Like during the first iteration the values shd be stored in A0 and next iteration it should be in A1 and so on.. How can i do it? can you pls help me..
194.on 29 Sep 2010 at 5:56 am 149Mukil

Hi, I have a doubt. How to replace alternate elements of a row vector with some value. Please help me. for eg [1 2 3 4] should become [1 0 3 0] Thank you. Mukil
195.on 06 Oct 2010 at 9:42 am 150Trey

You are awesome.

196.on 26 Oct 2010 at 1:51 am 151Christopher Alain Jones

great post all round! very helpful especially the interesting debates
197.on 08 Nov 2010 at 1:06 pm 152Jacob

I need to make the matrix: [1 3 5 7; 2 6 10 14; 3 9 15 21] Is there a shortcut for this?
198.on 18 Nov 2010 at 12:18 pm 153luke

Jacob, Your matrix is composed of multiples of first row (or column). Suppose that the first column is c (given), then your matrix is:
A=c*(1:numel(c)); If first row is given (say r), then: A=(1:numel(r)).'*r;

199.on 13 Dec 2010 at 10:30 am 154basu

how to display the maximum and minimum group elements in a duplicate vector using matlab code if the element present in the max group display corresponding max group elements and if the element present in the min group display corresponding min group elements how?Help me
200.on 14 Dec 2010 at 2:41 pm 155Kajal

Hello All, I have an algorithm that finds out the best features in a matrix and gives out the output as the indices of the input data that were selected as best features. The input is a 16*1368 matrix and the output is a 500*1 matrix. I want to compare the indices obtained as the output to the input indices and if they match I want to copy the rest of the row in a separate matrix. For example: Input Col 1 2 3 4 A=[ 100 20 3 4 5 6 7 8---->row1 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16----->row 2 24 67 21 38 42 53 54 90]> row 3 Output: [1 2]> column indices Now I want a matrix C such that C= [100 9 24 20 10 67] Please help me out !

Thanks and regards, Kajal

201.on 22 Dec 2010 at 10:32 am 156Zane Montgomery

Kajal, Im going to assume you only need help making matrix C and you know how to build your input/output matrices? In the code, I have some A (input) and B (output) matrices already populated which hopefully you can do already. B contains the arbitrary number of indices in A you want to put into C.
A=[ 100 20 3 4 5 6 7 8; 9:16; 24 67 21 38 42 53 54 90]; B=[1 2]; C=[]; %generate C as an empty matrix for n=1:length(B) C=[C; A(:,B(n))']; %Add a new row to C using the column of A defined by index B end C %prints out C

Should work! good luck. -Zane

202.on 12 Jan 2011 at 1:37 pm 157Wolfhantich

hello everybody, I have to do this I need to add value 3 to all odd values of vector x. how can I do that? thx
203.on 20 Jan 2011 at 12:49 pm 158iaj4

Hi all, I do have a vector with real data that was colected every 5 minutes. i want to have a matrix with data every one minute. initial matrix A=[1 2 3]; what I want is B=[1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3]. Any advice on how to do it? thanks!
204.on 22 Jan 2011 at 6:26 am 159jay

Hi I have a vector with both +ve and -ve values and the index vector. Both are taken from a large vector. While sorting the vector again according to -ve to positive I would like to keep track of the index also and arrange it accordingly..Please let me know thanks
205.on 24 Jan 2011 at 7:24 am 160Leandro

Hi I have two vectors. For example: x1 = [0.6154 0.7919 0.9218 0.7382 0.1763]; x2 = [0.4057 0.9355 0.9169 0.4103 0.8936]; How I can do

x3 = [0.6154 0.4057 0.7919 0.9355 0.9218 0.9169 0.7382 0.4103 0.1763 0.8936]? I dont want to use for Thanks.
206.on 03 Feb 2011 at 9:05 am 161Felix

hi, i have a 3D Matrix such as QQ=cat(3,w,q) QQ(:,:,1) = 12 34 QQ(:,:,2) = 56 78 now i want to use [r c]=find(QQ,8) to find my position for point 8. find just works for 2D arrays . is there is possibility for 3D arrays?
207.on 05 Feb 2011 at 11:01 am 162Anonymous

@anuj on 12 Mar 2008 at 3:06 am 10 QUESTION How can I remove rows in a matrix that have third element in the column 0 Input123 230 023 020 Answer should be123 023 ANSWER
>> c=[1 2 3;2 3 0;0 2 3;0 2 0] c = 1 2 0 0 2 3 2 2 3 0 3 0

>> z=find(c(:,3)==0) z =

2 4 >> c(z',:)=[] c = 1 0 2 2 3 3

Answered this question by reading this page alone.. Thanks for the post.. New Comer to this page.
208.on 05 Feb 2011 at 11:02 am 163Anonymous

>> c=[1 2 3;2 3 0;0 2 3;0 2 0] c= 123 230 023 020 >> z=find(c(:,3)==0) z= 2 4 >> c(z,:)=[] c= 123 023
209.on 06 Feb 2011 at 1:37 pm 164vijay

hi, I am trying to implement linear convolution by my own, as a part of class project. my query is let a=[1 2 3; 4 5 6;7 8 9] I wish to display only the second row. i.e 4 5 6. So, what command should i use?
210.on 06 Feb 2011 at 1:39 pm 165vijay

hi, I am trying to implement linear convolution by my own, as a part of class project. my query is let a=[1 2 3; 4 5 6;7 8 9]

a(6), displays the element of 6, but I would like to know , how to make it display the entire row/column .I wish to display only the second row. i.e 4 5 6. So, what command should i use?
211.on 07 Feb 2011 at 8:21 pm 166vijay

the command to be used is a(2,:)

212.on 08 Feb 2011 at 11:03 am 167Ted

Ive been trying to delete all the columns of a HUGE matrix that contains all zeros: info: my matrix size is (60,4000000) which is pre-allocated example: i have data on the 2500000 and belowafter the 2500000th column i only have zeros. question: how do i get rid of all the columns from 2500000 4000000 without getting the out of memory error. tried: matirx(:,2500001:end)=[]; newmatrix=matrix(:,1:2500000); i cant even copy the old matrix with a new one without getting the out of memory error. Please help, thanks!
213.on 21 Feb 2011 at 2:34 am 168chitra

hi, i need a matlab code which can store pixel values in a register or a 1D array. and i need code for converting m*m matrix to m*1 row matrix
214.on 22 Feb 2011 at 7:57 am 169Colm

how do i change all the 0s in a matrix to the value 1. thx colm

215.on 25 Feb 2011 at 5:23 am 170Ashutosh Gupta

Hi All, i have a matrix A=[70, 71, 72, 73, 73, 74, 75, 75, 75, 75, 76, 76, 76, 77, 77, 77, 78, 78, 78, 78, 79, 79, 79, 79, 79, 79, 79, 80, 80, 80, 80, 81, 81 81, 81, 81, 81, 81] i have to find the frequency of repeated elements as well as distinct element list like b = 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81 // array of distinct elements freq = 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 4, 3, 3, 4, 7, 4, 7 // frequency of each distinct element please help me to do this task
216.on 27 Feb 2011 at 4:11 pm 171mansur

Dear all, do you have any idea how could I accumulate every three member of an array and save it t o another array: Lets assume: A=[1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9] I would like to have this matrix: B=[1+2+3;4+5+6;7+8+9] Thanks
217.on 28 Feb 2011 at 2:31 am 172mansur

The answer: B= kron(speye(3),ones(1,3))*A;

218.on 01 Mar 2011 at 3:17 pm 173Liz

Hi there! Is there a function that would enable me to find the proportion of values in an array that are above or below a certain value? Thanks, Liz
219.on 15 Mar 2011 at 1:23 am 174Mar

Hi all, I got this problem: How do I repack the one column vector(with 200 elements) into 50 column vectors with 4 elements each? Also, I need to have those new vectors as a part of one matrix. Thank you.
220.on 17 Mar 2011 at 5:04 am 175kyrzi

dear all, i want to make a 66 matrix with 0s and 1s. but i want a specific number of 0s (and 1s). for example, all arrays must have 4 zeros and 2 ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
221.on 06 Apr 2011 at 3:57 pm 176Guy

Hello, Very useful tutorial, it helped me a lot to start with Matlab. Thanks.
222.on 07 Apr 2011 at 5:26 pm 177Priyabrata Ghorai

Hi, Im havin a=10101101 i want the output as b=[1;0;1;0;1;1;0;1]

how to do it in matlab? Also vice versa when a=[1;0;1;0;1;1;0;1] and its output as b=10101101 I want each bit to fit in each cell of the matrix and vice versa.
223.on 07 Apr 2011 at 6:30 pm 178Parul

Dear all, I have a vector 2D x= (1 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 3 2; 5 6 7 8 9 2 3 4 5 6) I need to separate for 1 corresponding end column I mean first column 1 : 5 6 8 3 first column 2: 7 9 2 4 6 how can I separate the for each duplicate the corresponding elemts of the second column please Thanks in advanced parul
224.on 01 May 2011 at 8:21 am 179Reza

thank you all. It was really helpful for me as a beginner.

225.on 01 May 2011 at 9:05 pm 180sam

hi friends, I have a problem. I have two binary arrays for example, a=[101011;100011;110101];b=[10; 01;11]; I would like to concatenate these two binary arrays as output=[10101110;10001101;11010111]. Please help me how to get this putput? output[a b] is not working. Thanks sam
226.on 06 May 2011 at 9:13 pm 181mona
227.%after constrained delaunay triangulation ,centroids plotted in each triangle 228.%I want to join with line segment two adjacent triangles 229.% but nor plot or line function works correctly 230.% i am getting error unequal vectors

231.tr = TriRep(dt(io,

, dt.X); 232.triplot(tr); 233.axis ij; 234.axis([40 140 40 140]); 235.ic = incenters(tr); 236.hold on; 237.plot(ic(:,1),ic(:,2),'*r'); 238.hold off; 239.n=size(tr); 240.ind1 = tr(1,:); 241.ind2 = tr(2,:); 242.tri1 = dt.X(ind1,:);

243.tri2 = dt.X(ind2,:); 244. if((isequal(tri1(1,1),tri2(1,1)) && (isequal(tri1(1,2),tri2(1,2))))|| (isequal(tri1(2,1),tri2(2,1))&& (isequal(tri1(2,2),tri2(2,2))))|| (isequal(tri1(3,1),tri2(3,1))&& (isequal(tri1(3,2),tri2(3,2))))); 245. c1=incenters(tr,1); 246. c2=incenters(tr,2); line(c1,c2,'Marker','.','LineStyle','-');

247.on 09 May 2011 at 10:14 pm 182dj62

hey, I was wondering how would I change a dec to binary then storing each bit of the binary into array I would first use a= dec2bin(255,8), Then from here im stuck.. the output will be 11111111. How do I this number in a 18 matrix? thank you
248.on 09 May 2011 at 10:18 pm 183dj62

D= figured it out xD.. Noticed that it is a char. So just use str2num and store =)
249.on 12 May 2011 at 8:00 am 184marwa

Sam, you can try [a b]

250.on 12 May 2011 at 8:07 am 185marwa

Sam, [a;b] or [a,b] depends if you want to do it by rows or columns

251.on 12 May 2011 at 8:14 am 186marwa

Colm: If A matrix contains zeros, B = A==0 will replace all entries in A to 1

252.on 13 May 2011 at 11:27 am 187Florin

hello everyone, i kinda have a big problem, i have to check if two images overlap, but i don`t know how to get the indices to check each other out. Let me explain it better: p and t are my images(they are white with black lines -1 pixel width- ) i`m using
bwP = bwlabeln(p,4); bwT = bwlabeln(t,4);

to separate the areas into groups(delimited by the black lines). My problem is that i now have to check how many pixels from t (including which group they belong to) overlap with the pixels from a group in p (basically i have to check each region in the image P and see how many pixels from T(and the regions that they belong to) overlap. i`m not that familiar with matlab so any help would be greatly appreciated.
253.on 02 Jun 2011 at 7:19 pm 188Pabitra

Hi Friends, I cant solve this prov pls help me

P=[1,5,2,4,6,2,5,2,4,2,5,2,3,2,5,2] this is an array .. i want to find out an array which contains the repeated value. Ans: Q=[2,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,4,5,5,5,5]
254.on 05 Jul 2011 at 1:01 am 189manju

hello i have a matrix .this is a addition of two sorted vector. i need a access a element which is two place in a matrix. when i trying to find a element in a matrix ,it returns two row and column value.then how to access first from two same element.. Thanks in advance manju
255.on 14 Jul 2011 at 11:13 am 190Keana

Hi everyone, Ive been trying to create an array whose elements consist of a contant (say100) throughout but with size equal to the size of another array. Please can someone help me with a way out.
256.on 16 Jul 2011 at 2:09 pm 191ameen

hi Keana, We suppose G have size m,n and we want to create G1 have the same size of G and all elements egal to 100
[m,n]=size(G); G1=ones(m,n)*100;

257.on 22 Jul 2011 at 12:53 am 192Jesse Vaitkus

Hello, Id just like to say that this was highly informative and I have been searching for such a bare basics guide for a long time. Thank you very much. Cheers, Jesse Vaitkus
258.on 25 Jul 2011 at 8:41 am 193bZETsu

hi i nid help. I generated a column array of numbers like this 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 And n0w i want it to be an array just lyk ds 246 8 10 12 14 16 18 How wud i do it? Help plz thanks
259.on 26 Jul 2011 at 3:14 pm 194r1

Hi All: I have a matrix as follows: A =[1.000000000000e+00 1.062210069028e-04 7.122271145085e-06 -1.000000000000e+00 2.141751975226e-05 1.070956793608e-04 1.000000000000e+00 2.141751975226e-05 -1.070956793608e-04 2.000000000000e+00 4.883168521903e-05 2.801214863122e-05 -2.000000000000e+00 -6.892929607953e-05 1.128055154927e-04 3.000000000000e+00 -1.333947488675e-05 -2.893511554255e-04 -3.000000000000e+00 -6.060199942383e-05 -1.315659482030e-04 3.000000000000e+00 -6.060199942383e-05 1.315659482030e-04 -3.000000000000e+00 1.333947488675e-05 -2.893511554255e-04] I want to seperate them into three matrices like : A1 = [1.000000000000e+00 1.062210069028e-04 7.122271145085e-06 -1.000000000000e+00 2.141751975226e-05 1.070956793608e-04 1.000000000000e+00 2.141751975226e-05 -1.070956793608e-04 ] A2 = [2.000000000000e+00 4.883168521903e-05 2.801214863122e-05 -2.000000000000e+00 -6.892929607953e-05 1.128055154927e-04 ] A3 = [ 3.000000000000e+00 -1.333947488675e-05 -2.893511554255e-04 -3.000000000000e+00 -6.060199942383e-05 -1.315659482030e-04 3.000000000000e+00 -6.060199942383e-05 1.315659482030e-04 -3.000000000000e+00 1.333947488675e-05 -2.893511554255e-04] Waht is the efficient way of doing this? Please not that the elements in the first colomn are not equally distributed and hence, I cannot extract by specifying the certain length. I would really appreciate your help. R.
260.on 31 Jul 2011 at 9:57 pm 195art

Hello I have an integer collection. I need to get all possibilites that sum of values are equal to X.
261.on 14 Aug 2011 at 3:01 am 196Pink

Hey can u please tell me how can we find the number of repeated 1s(if its repeated only 3 times not more then dat) in a given matrix nd a vector??? for eg: A=[ 1 2 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0] should give ans as 3

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