delete certain elements in a matrix
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Is there any way to delete certain rows(with a pattern) in a matrix
like to delete rows 1,6,11,21,26,..... using a loop
Thanks.
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Azzi Abdelmalek
on 14 Mar 2013
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek
on 14 Mar 2013
A=rand(40,4)
v=[1 6 11 21 26]
w=sort(v);
for k=0:numel(v)-1
A(w(k+1)-k,:)=[]
end
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Jan
on 14 Mar 2013
@dav: Simply set a breakpoint in the code an let it run. In the first iteration the first row is deleted. In the 2nd iteration, you should not delete the 6th row, because in the first iteration the 6th row became the 5th one. Therefore (k-1) is subtracted from the index in the k.th iteration.
Nevertheless, a loop is an inefficient approach and suffers from the old Schlemiel the painter problem.
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Sven
on 14 Mar 2013
Edited: Sven
on 14 Mar 2013
In a loop? Not really.
All at once? Absolutely.
DATA = rand(50,5);
rowsToDelete = [1,6,11,21,26];
DATA(rowsToDelete,:) = [];
If you mean that your rows to delete has the pattern of rows 1,6,11,16, etc, then just do this:
numRows = size(DATA,1);
rowsToDelete = [1:10:numRows 6:10:numRows];
DATA(rowsToDelete,:) = [];
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Jan
on 14 Mar 2013
This is much faster than a loop for large arrays. Shrinking arrays in a loop has the same drawback as letting them grow: In each iteration the new array must be allocated and the contents of the old one is copied. This is very expensive.
Jan
on 14 Mar 2013
Alternative to Sven's approach:
Data = rand(50,5);
index = false(1, 50);
index(1:10:end) = true;
index(6:10:end) = true;
Data(index, :) = [];
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