Selecting non-zero elements from a symbolic vector
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Farid Salazar Wong
on 23 Jun 2015
Commented: Star Strider
on 23 Jun 2015
Given a symbolic vector, say [a*b, 0 , a^2*b*c, 1, 0]. How could I obtain a vector from the non-zero entries, I would like for the given example to have [a*b, a^2*b*c, 1] as a result. I tried nonzeros but this does not work for type sym.
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Walter Roberson
on 23 Jun 2015
Do you want to remove the entries that are identical to 0, or the entries that can be proven to be 0? For example if one of the entries was 1 - cos(theta)^2 - sin(theta)^2 then we could show that this must be 0 (at least for finite non-nan values), so should it be removed?
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Star Strider
on 23 Jun 2015
This works for me (in R2015a):
syms a b c
V = [a*b, 0 , a^2*b*c, 1, 0];
Vnz = V(V~=0)
Vnz =
[ a*b, a^2*b*c, 1]
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Mischa Kim
on 23 Jun 2015
Farid, you could use
syms a b c d = [a*b, 0 , a^2*b*c, 1, 0]; d(d==0) = [] d = [ a*b, a^2*b*c, 1]
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Mischa Kim
on 23 Jun 2015
Then you need to post the entire code. Use the paper clip symbol to attach.
Azzi Abdelmalek
on 23 Jun 2015
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek
on 23 Jun 2015
syms a b c
d = [a*b, 0 , a^2*b*c, 1, 0]
c=nonzeros(d).'
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