Matlab: how to extract blocks from a large matrix

[confi999]

Hi,
I have a 24000x24000 sparse matrix. I want to extract 4 blocks out of it;
(0,0) to (6000,6000)
(6001,6001) to (12000,12000)
(12001,12001) to (18000,18000)
(18001,18001) to (24000,24000)

By use of those my aim is to make a block diagonal matrix using MATLAB command 'blkdiag' .

Can anyone please help me with the MATLAB code to extract those 4 blocks.
Thank you so much.

 

[John Creighto]

Hi,
I have a 24000x24000 sparse matrix. I want to extract 4 blocks out of it;
(0,0) to (6000,6000)
(6001,6001) to (12000,12000)
(12001,12001) to (18000,18000)
(18001,18001) to (24000,24000)

By use of those my aim is to make a block diagonal matrix using MATLAB command 'blkdiag' .

Can anyone please help me with the MATLAB code to extract those 4 blocks.
Thank you so much.

I haven't done it before but my guess, would be is you create an empty scarce matrix, and then equate ellements using the colin operator.

 

[trambolin]

You can use the semicolon to select, let your matrix be A, then the blocks you want to get is A1,A2,A3,A4

[m,n] = size(A);
A1 = A(1:6000,1:6000);
A2 = A(1:6000,6001:n);
A3 = A(6001:m,1:6000);
A4 = A(6001:m,6001:n);
AA = blkdiag(A1,A2,A3,A4);

 

[swraman]

Hi,
I have a 24000x24000 sparse matrix. I want to extract 4 blocks out of it;
(0,0) to (6000,6000)
(6001,6001) to (12000,12000)
(12001,12001) to (18000,18000)
(18001,18001) to (24000,24000)

By use of those my aim is to make a block diagonal matrix using MATLAB command 'blkdiag' .

Can anyone please help me with the MATLAB code to extract those 4 blocks.
Thank you so much.

If I am understanding you correctly, you want to extract a square matrix
out of a larger matrix. if you want a section out of an array, you just call the array using those indecies. so uf your matrix is A:

(0,0) to (6000,6000) would be

A(1:6001,1:6001)

Remember in Matlab array/matrix indexes start at 1 not 0.

(6001,6001) to (12000,12000) would be

A(6002:12001,6002:12001)

and so on.