Truncating a vector from an addressed element in MatLab

[edwrai]

hi,
in MatLab, if you have x and y vectors and want to address an element in vector x, let's say i>=3 from which to construct a new vector x that starts from the addressed element until the last element and at the same time construct a new y vector corresponding to the new x vector?

x=[1 2 3 4 5 6 7]
y=[7 6 5 4 3 2 1]
new x should be=[4 5 6 7]
and new y =[4 3 2 1 ]


Maybe using an array=[x y]?

Any answer would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance

 

[MATLABdude]

Don't know if this is still useful or not, but you'd have to use the colon (:) operator. See the Mathworks page for more information and usage:
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/colon.html

In your case, you'd use the following:
>> x = x(3:5);
>> y = y(3:5);

Once you read through the above page, you'll understand why.

 

[oswaler]

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Hello,

Thank you for your question. To truncate a vector from an addressed element in MatLab, you can use the "end" keyword to indicate the last element of the vector. For example, if you want to create a new vector x starting from the third element of the original vector x until the last element, you can use the following code:

x=[1 2 3 4 5 6 7];
new_x = x(3:end); % this will create a new vector starting from the third element until the end

To create a corresponding new y vector, you can use the same indexing as the new_x vector:

y=[7 6 5 4 3 2 1];
new_y = y(3:end); % this will create a new vector starting from the third element of y until the end

Using an array=[x y] will not work in this case because it will simply concatenate the two vectors, resulting in a vector with 14 elements. Instead, you can use the "end" keyword to create the desired truncated vectors.

I hope this helps. Happy coding!