Squish

Squish removes ALL singleton dimensions.

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Squish(x) will remove all singleton dimensions in x, including conversion of row vectors to column vectors.

Since singleton dimensions can confuse many operations, this function removes absolutely ALL singleton dimensions. SQUEEZE though similar, does not operate on 2D arrays which include row vectors. Thus the expected result may not always occur with SQUEEZE.

Note: This same operation can be performed with shiftdim(squeeze(x)), but squish has been timed to be faster.

For example compare the results of the following for any positive or negative n:
size(squeeze(shiftdim([1:3]',n)))
size(squish(shiftdim([1:3]',n)))

Cite As

Mirko Hrovat (2026). Squish (https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/11945-squish), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.1.0.0

Modified as per Jan Simon's suggestion. It did result in a very very slight speed improvement.

1.0.0.0

Function has been modified to use logical indexing instead of "find".