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

14 Jan 2008 Quan Quach 175 comments 24,044 views
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, let’s create a row vector that goes from 1 to 10, with
increments of 1.
myVector = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]; %the hard way
myVector = 1:10 %the easy way
2. How to transform a row vector to a column vector, and vice versa.

myVector = 1:10; %creates a row vector
myVector = myVector' %this is the complex conjugate transpose
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.
3. How to create a column vector that increments by 1. For example, let’s create a column vector that goes from 1 to 10,
with increments of 1.
myVector = [1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10]; %the hard way
myVector = [1:10].' %the easy way
4. How to create a vector that increments by a specific value. Let’s create a vector that goes from 1 to 19, and
increments by 2. Note that the increment value is not limited to integers.
myVector = 1:2:19
5. How to create a vector that decrements by a specific value. Let’s create a vector that goes from 10 to 1, and
decrements by 1
myVector = 10:-1:1
6. How to create a vector with equally spaced points. Let’s create a vector that goes from 0 to 100 with 21 equally
spaced points.
%first argument is the start value of the vector
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%second argument is the end value of the vector

%third argument is the number of points within the vector
myVector = linspace(0,100,21)
7. How to create a vector of zeros. For example, let’s create a vector of 10 zeros.
%first argument is the number of rows
%second argument is the number of columns
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.
8. How to create a vector of ones. For example, let’s create a vector of 10 ones.
%first argument is the number of rows
%second argument is the number of columns
rowOnes = ones(1,10)
Note: This is yet another way to preallocate a vector.
Adding, Removing, and Replacing Elements within a Vector

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

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.
10. How to append two vectors together.

myVector1 = 1:5;
myVector2 = 6:10;
myVectorAppend = [myVector1 myVector2]
%myVectorAppend = cat(2,myVector1,myVector2) does the same thing
Note: Same warning as above.
11. How to remove a particular element from a vector. Lets say we want to remove the 4th entry.
myVector = 1:10;
myVector(4) = []
12. 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.
myVector = 1:10;
myVector(4) = 100
13. How to remove the last element from a vector.

myVector = 1:10;
myVector(end) = []
14. How to remove the last 5 elements.

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

myVector(1:5) =[];
16. How to remove a series of elements. For example, let’s remove entries 3 through 6:
myVector = 1:10;
myVector(3:6) = []
17. How to keep a series of elements. For example, let’s keep entries 3 through 6:
myVector = 1:10;
myVector = myVector(3:6)
18. How to remove a group of specific elements. For example, lets remove entries 2,5, and 7:
myVector = 1:10;
myVector([2,5,7]) = []
19. How to keep a group of specific elements. For example, lets keep entries 2,5, and 7:
myVector = 1:10;
myVector = myVector([2,5,7])
20. How to get the number of elements within a vector. Useful when creating a for loop to run through a vector.
myVector = 1:10;
numElements = length(myVector)
%the following command does the same thing

numElements = numel(myVector)
21. How to remove all zeros from a vector.

myVector = [0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 4 5 1 2 0 0];
%index contains the indices elements within myVector which are non-zero
index = find(myVector);
myVector = myVector(index) %removes all the zeros within the vector
Alternatively, logical indexing can be used (and is more efficient)

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

myVector(myVector == 6) = [];
23. How to remove the first two occurences of 6 within a vector

myVector = [6 6 0 1 2 3 0 0 6 6 1 2 0 0];
index = find(myVector == 6,2);
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
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index = find(myVector > 5);


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

myVector(myVector < 5) = [];
Sorting and Shifting Vectors

26. How to reverse a vector.
myVector = 1:10;
myVector = myVector(end:-1:1)
27. How to sort a vector.

myVector = [10 0 0 1 12 3 0 0 4 5 1 12 0 0];
myVectorAscend = sort(myVector) %sort ascending
myVectorDescend = sort(myVector,'descend') %sort descending
28. How to shift the elements one spot to the right.

myVector = 1:10;
myVector = myVector([end 1:end-1])
29. How to shift the elements one spot to the left.

myVector = 1:10;
myVector2 = myVector([2:end 1])
Other useful commands:

30. How to get the maximum and minimum value of a vector
myVector = [10 0 0 1 12 3 0 0 4 5 1 12 0 0];
maxValue = max(myVector);
minValue = min(myVector);
31. How to add up all the elements within a vector.

myVector = 1:10;
total = sum(myVector);
32. How to get the product of all the elements within a vector.
myVector = 1:10;
total = prod(myVector);
33. How to get the average, standard deviation, and variance of a vector.
myVector = 1:10;
averageArray = mean(myVector)
stdArray = std(myVector)
varArray = var(myVector)
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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!
175 Responses to “Matlab - Tips and Tricks on Manipulating 1-D Arrays (Vectors)”
1. on 14 Jan 2008 at 7:46 am 1Dan K
I’m 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:
Whereas a faster implementaiton (and, I think more clear) is:
myVector(myVector >5)=[];
HTH,
Dan
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?
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);
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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
I’ve 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 doesn’t 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
Input-
123
230
023
020
Answer should be-

123
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 doesn’t 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’)
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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?
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
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
Thanks Daniel. Problem solved.
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);
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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
Takkari,
Here’s 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 else’s
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
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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 ,
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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, I’ve got 3 vectors :
A = [1 2 3 4];
B = [5 6 7 8];
C = [9 10 11];
(note the unequal dims). And I’d 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
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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,
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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! Can’t find it right now, but there is a great post by Loren about indexing that I think covers logicals
like this. Also skim Steve’s blog for logical operations since they’re used in image processing a lot.
Merry Christmas!
Rob
44. on 23 Dec 2008 at 9:39 pm 44Rob S.
@ Tanuj,
Since I’m 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 don’t want to duplicate what Loren’s and Steve’s blogs have covered about logicals, but this method basically
produces a “mask” vector of 1’s and 0’s 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
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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
Rob’s 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
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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, I’m 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? I’m not a programming guru so I’m not certain how to create this
functionality in the most efficient way.
Thanks in advance, I’m 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.
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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 = 1:1:c;
M = sin((pi*t)/p).^2 ;
F = repmat(M,r,c);
Y = 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,
I’m curious if the matrix you’re getting is 1-D or 3-D+? I would think it should still output as 2-D, just not the style that
you want.
Let’s 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)
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function Y = jail(X,p)
[r,c] = size(X); %We want our duplicated array to be of this size..
t = 1:1:c; %1:c works too, by default it increments 1 every time

M = sin((pi*t)/p).^2 ;
F = repmat(M,r,1); %changed
Y = 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 vectors…Lets 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! It’s not practical in most cases. Quan, you should check out the
circshift command… it’s 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…):
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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,
i’ve 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? there’s 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;]
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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 31×10 after you original 31×21 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
% hi guys, i'new @ matlab, this very good matlab site

% i could need some help plz
% i have wind speed data (winspd) & wind direction in different array
% i want to calculate wind and direction data so i have north-south component
% which contain wind speed and north (+)- south direction(-).
%my array
windspd = [1,2,3;4,5,6;7,8,9]
winddir = [30,60,120;135,180,210;225,250,300]
% code not running yet, i have problem how to calculate in array with 2
% variabel & calculate north-south direction in winddir so i have north-south wind speed component
% north(0), east (90), south(180) & west (270)
% correct me if i'm wrong with the if logic calculation i'm still new in matlab
if winddir (find(winddir>=0 & winddir=90 & winddir=180 & winddir=270 & winddir<
winddir = cos(winddir*(pi/180))
end
north_south = winspd .* winddir
%north-south component excpected result

north_south = [0.86602, 1, -1.5; -2.8284, -5, -5.19615;-4.94974,-0.34202, 4.5]
% many thx be4 :D
70. on 15 Jul 2009 at 10:30 am 70Budhie
oops forget to fill my name…thx be4 guys.
71. on 17 Jul 2009 at 7:38 am 71Zane Montgomery
Hi Budhie,
Somethings wrong with your ‘if’ statement, but that’s not how I usually code in MATLAB, but let me show you a cool
tip.
It looks like you’re 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:
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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
HI Zane,
its works, thanks for the cool tips :D. 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
% 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,
-budhie-
hmm the matlab code doesn’t 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 3×3 array
a = [1,2,2.59807;2.82842,-5,-5.19615;-4.94974,-2.73616,9]
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thx be4,
-budhie-
sry if double posting…:D
if (b >=90)&(b=180)&(b<270)
a = a*cosd(b-180)
end
end
if (b >=90)&(b=180)&(b<270)
a = a*cosd(b-180)
end
if (b >=90) & (b<180)

a = a.*sind (b-90)
else if (b >=180)&(b<270)
a = a*cosd(b-180)
end
end
sry doesn’t display m if correctly…
thx be4,
-budhie-
79. on 03 Aug 2009 at 7:26 pm 79Kalo
How do I make a plot using h=pcolor for 210×1 matrix
80. 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.
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I will highly appreciate help in this regards,
/Malaika.
81. 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?
82. 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.
83. on 21 Oct 2009 at 7:37 am 83Zane Montgomery
Tim,
I’d recommend creating a new variable b to store you 0s/1s array, but other than that it’s easy.
a=[-1.2, 0.12, 1.5 , -0.009, 2];

b=a>0; %note: zero gets mapped to a zero logical
And you’re done!

2 quick notes:
1) B is an array of logicals
2) Make sure you’re using ‘array’ notation ‘[ ]‘, not ‘cell’ notation ‘{ }’ The cells is an array of 1×1 arrays and you’ll
have to access each element individually to evaluate.
Good luck,
Zane
84. 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
85. 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.
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86. 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
87. 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
88. 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
89. 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]
90. on 27 Jan 2010 at 3:05 pm 90Murphy
how do you remove all the even numbers from a vector?
91. 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.
92. on 01 Feb 2010 at 11:52 am 92SPQR
krishh,
Here’s 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.
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93. 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]
94. 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
95. 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 A’s contents into C starting at 1, then 3, etc.
C(2:2:end) = B % place B’s 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.
96. on 24 Feb 2010 at 2:18 am 96sangeeta
[1 0 2 0
3 0 4 0]
should becom
[1 2
3 4]
97. on 26 Feb 2010 at 8:54 am 97SPQR
sangeeta,
See Post #92
98. 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
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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]
99. 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.
100. 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
101. 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………..
102. 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
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Has anyone ideas?

Thank you!
103. 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
104. 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
105. 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.
106. on 01 Apr 2010 at 2:12 pm 106Zane Montgomery
@ali
I’m not quite sure I know what you’re 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!
107. on 09 Apr 2010 at 4:46 am 107Matt
Hi, I’ve got a problem.
I define a matrix like this for exampel:
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>> j = [1,6,6;1,2,3;6,5,4]
j =
1 6 6
1 2 3
6 5 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 6 6 <-- this row contains at least 1 six

1 2 3 <-- this row contains no sixes
1 2 2 <-- this row contains no sixes
4 3 2 > occurence(j, 6) <-- pseudofunction
ans =
3 <-- amount of rows containing at least one six
108. 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.
109. 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
110. 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
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50055005
any body know how to do that ??
111. 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
112. on 30 Apr 2010 at 8:36 pm 112emmi
Let’s 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? Let’s 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 -0.9092 0.3255 0.3564 0.7989 0.2441 37.7547 292.3663

-0.2333 -0.9699 0.3273 0.3449 0.7641 0.2366 34.5573 304.3396
-0.1999 -0.9938 0.3223 0.3256 0.7279 0.2234 29.0925 302.9826
-0.2063 -0.9832 0.3317 0.3219 0.7204 0.2324 29.1262 296.5975
-0.2159 -0.9638 0.3346 0.3153 0.7109 0.2302 29.1044 286.3701
-0.2189 -0.9378 0.3334 0.3019 0.7017 0.2298 27.7276 273.8610
-0.2156 -0.9474 0.3348 0.2959 0.6668 0.2279 26.7218 267.9965
-0.2138 -0.9639 0.3315 0.2879 0.6314 0.2147 25.6377 265.1570
-0.2098 -0.9597 0.3267 0.2791 0.6331 0.2031 24.3022 263.9478
-0.2090 -0.9472 0.3249 0.2740 0.6209 0.1980 23.6842 256.1645
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
113. 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.
114. 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!
115. on 09 May 2010 at 2:53 am 115sonny
Hi,
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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.
116. 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 .
117. 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?
118. 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
119. 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(:);
120. 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,:) = [];
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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 fado’s 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,:) = [];
121. 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 % <-- first element in the array associated with the index that is not included u
1.8
1.9
2
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4 % <--- first element in the array associated with the index that is not included
2.8
2.9
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3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
4
I’m having some trouble explaining this so I hope it make sense. Please email if you can help. And great site by the
way!!!
122. on 30 Jun 2010 at 9:01 am 122Zane Montgomery
yup, lost. dunno what your ‘group’ and ’subsection’s are referring to.
Can you make a smaller simplified example?
123. 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. Let’s 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
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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.
124. on 30 Jun 2010 at 3:31 pm 124Zane Montgomery
Ahh I think I see that. I’m guessing there are multiple ways to do it but I’ll try to explain the ‘how’ of what I’d do.
Key: Keep everything in terms of indices until the very end since that’s 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 that’s 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
125. 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
126. 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. I’m
still working to implement the code so I’m not sure if it will work as I hope (albeit the code provided here does
EXACTLY what I asked for).
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Thanks.
127. 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
128. 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. That’s 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
129. 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);
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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..
130. 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)
131. 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!
132. on 02 Sep 2010 at 7:42 am 132Zane Montgomery
Here ya go Dingo:
Azimuth(Azimuth<135 & Azimuth>90)=135;
133. 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
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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
134. 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?
135. on 09 Sep 2010 at 10:58 pm 135Zane Montgomery
Tapos, you’ll 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 8×8x8 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.
136. 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]
John. S.,
Try this trick:

vec(~mod(vec,2))=[]
I encourage you to figure out what that does!
Best,
Zane
138. on 18 Sep 2010 at 5:30 pm 138rudra
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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?
I think I know what you’re 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 vecto
end %end of for loop
good luck,
Zane
140. 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).
I’m 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)
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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
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
]
I’ve made far too many attempts to post code here, but essentially I’ve 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”.
I’m new in MATLAB and appeal to the community for help!
Jason, i’m trying to go through the logic here but it’s a bit confusing not knowing the problem or the same level of
detail you do. I’m not sure how you’re comparing your matrices or how you get the desired matrix value you want
(one confusion is your ys matrix is 5×4, but your variable ys matrix is 5×5 while all other inputs are 5×5 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. I’m not sure how your values are ‘changed’ in the following sentences:
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“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 3×3 matrix perhaps?
ttys.
142. 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.
I’ll 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
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question
144. on 24 Sep 2010 at 8:27 am 144Jason
Ha ha I did and got no response… I’ve come to a workable solution altering the program elsewhere, thanks for the
response…
145. on 25 Sep 2010 at 6:03 am 145Fess I.

Hi,
I have been trying to selectively pick a row from a matrix dimension of 4,5 using the index. Here
d = rand(4,5); %randomly generate 4-by-5 matrix

indx = round((size(d)-1)*rand(1,1)+); % finding indices of the matrix
% Here am trying to randomly obtain any row from the matrix

for i = 1:size(d)
indxr = d(indx(i),:);
end
But, I got this error message: ??? Attempted to access d(5,:); index out of bounds because size(
Then, I used this for loop below, but it does obtain a row from the matrix, but it is same row every tim
for i = 1:size(d)
indxr = d(indx(i),:);
end
Do you have any solution or idea on how I can get it to work. The basic idea is to randomly select
146. 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..
147. 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..
148. 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..
149. 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
150. on 06 Oct 2010 at 9:42 am 150Trey
You are awesome.
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151. on 26 Oct 2010 at 1:51 am 151Christopher Alain Jones
great post all round!

very helpful especially the interesting debates
152. 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?
153. 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;
154. 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
155. 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,
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Kajal
156. on 22 Dec 2010 at 10:32 am 156Zane Montgomery
Kajal,
I’m 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
157. 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
158. 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!
159. 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
160. 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 don’t want to use ‘for’…
Thanks.
161. on 03 Feb 2011 at 9:05 am 161Felix
hi,
i have a 3D Matrix such as
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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?
@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
Input-
123
230
023
020
Answer should be-

123
023
ANSWER
>> c=[1 2 3;2 3 0;0 2 3;0 2 0]
c =
1 2 3
2 3 0
0 2 3
0 2 0
>> z=find(c(:,3)==0)
z =
2
4
>> c(z',:)=[]
c =
1 2 3
0 2 3
Answered this question by reading this page alone.. Thanks for the post..
New Comer to this page.
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>> 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
164. 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?
165. 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?
166. on 07 Feb 2011 at 8:21 pm 166vijay
the command to be used is a(2,:)
167. on 08 Feb 2011 at 11:03 am 167Ted
I’ve 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
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example:
i have data on the 2500000 and below…after 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 can’t even copy the old matrix with a new one without getting the “out of memory error”. Please help, thanks!
168. 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
169. on 22 Feb 2011 at 7:57 am 169Colm
how do i change all the 0’s in a matrix to the value 1.

thx
colm
170. 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
171. 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
172. on 28 Feb 2011 at 2:31 am 172mansur
The answer:
B= kron(speye(3),ones(1,3))*A;
173. on 01 Mar 2011 at 3:17 pm 173Liz
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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
174. 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.
175. on 17 Mar 2011 at 5:04 am 175kyrzi
dear all,
i want to make a 6×6 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.
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%second argument is the end value of the vector

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

Adding, Removing, and Replacing Elements within a Vector

%we can also add 11 to the beginning of the vector

10. How to append two vectors together.

Note: Same warning as above.

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

14. How to remove the last 5 elements.

%the following command does the same thing

%the following command does the same thing

21. How to remove all zeros from a vector.

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

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

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

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

index = find(myVector > 5);

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

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

Sorting and Shifting Vectors

27. How to sort a vector.

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

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

Other useful commands:

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

Got any tricks up your sleeve?

2. on 14 Jan 2008 at 2:14 pm 2Quan Quach

3. on 15 Jan 2008 at 7:31 am 3Dan K

Whereas a faster implementaiton (and, I think more clear) is:

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

5. on 21 Jan 2008 at 2:40 pm 5Vahid

6. on 21 Jan 2008 at 3:23 pm 6Quan Quach

Try using the repmat command. For example:

myMatrix = magic(4); % the matrix you are multiplying into.

myAnswer = myMatrix .* myVectorRepeated; %notice the dot before the multipy

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

8. on 09 Mar 2008 at 2:43 pm 8Percy

such that the dimension of a is [7,7]

it doesn’t work to put these to a{ind,:}={}; a{:,ind}={}; or does it?

9. on 09 Mar 2008 at 3:05 pm 9Quan Quach

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

Answer should be-

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

if I have two vectors that have different length,eg.

without using loop, how to make a program?

12. on 26 Mar 2008 at 12:21 am 12jack

13. on 26 Mar 2008 at 12:45 am 13Daniel Sutoyo

hey jack you can use the command

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

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

Maybe the sort function is what you are looking for.

16. on 28 Mar 2008 at 11:32 am 16takkari

17. on 28 Mar 2008 at 2:19 pm 17Daniel Sutoyo

y is your new sorted values

18. on 28 Mar 2008 at 2:19 pm 18takkari

This code do the same job but takes much time:

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

Thanks Daniel. Problem solved.

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