How do I compare two large matrices?

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Hi I'm new to matlab and was wondering how to compare two matrices
Basically I have one matrix that is 950x49 and one that is 950x1 I want to compare the two matrices to bring back the 10 closest values of each column of x that is compared with y, into a new matric 'new'. If anyone could please help, it would greatly be appreciated!
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José-Luis
José-Luis on 13 Sep 2014
Should the values be in the same line?
Premal
Premal on 13 Sep 2014
nope they just have to be the 10 closest values in each column!

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Rick Rosson
Rick Rosson on 13 Sep 2014
Edited: Rick Rosson on 13 Sep 2014
N = size(x,2);
u = ones(1,N);
d = abs(x - y*u);
v = sort(d);
z = v(1:10,:);
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Premal
Premal on 13 Sep 2014
thank you so much!!! Is there anyway to get the value of x that was closest into z rather than the difference?

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Roger Stafford
Roger Stafford on 13 Sep 2014
Just modify Rick's code a bit:
m = 10;
[~,p] = sort(abs(bsxfun(@minus,x,y)),2);
new = zeros(size(x,1),m);
for i = 1:N
new(i,:) = x(i,p(i,1:m));
end

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