I want to know how this code is working.

I am new to MATLAB. To improve my skills I am practicing with simple problems. One problem is extracting even and odd numbers from a vector.For e.g. I wrote this code to extract odd and even numbers from a vector.

A=linspace(1,1000,1000);
Odd=[];
Even=[];
for i=1:length(A)
  if rem(A(i),2)~=0;
      Odd=[Odd;A(i)];
  else
      Even=[Even;A(i)];
  end
end

A colleague pointed out that there is an even easier way of doing this..(there could be many)

   Odd=A(rem(A(:),2)~=0); 
   Even=A(rem(A(:),2)==0);

I don't understand how this code works. The part rem(A(:),2)~=0 gives a logical array. How does index of logical array ultimately give odd and even numbers?

Answer 1

[Stephan]

Hi,

lhe logical array inside the A(...) gives back all the values where the index represented by the logical array is true. That is why this works.

To learn more about this check this: https://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/find-array-elements-that-meet-a-condition.html

Best regards

Stephan

[Neal]

Thank you. The link you provided is really what I wanted to know.