findnearest.m

Find the nearest value in an array to a test value.

Description

Find the index or subscripts of the nearest value in an array to a test value. A bias argument can be included to only return values greater or less than the search value.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.0 (R12)

[Glenn Hartwell]

Good function! It does just what I need.

[Felipe Leon]

A bit slow, but works great for my needs. If there is a optimal (faster) way of doing this, will someone please share.

Ran into a small issue with repeated values, where it returned more than one value, causing an error in my routine. This can be corrected on my end, but to do so in here, I just changed the code a little bit (as below):

if nargout==1 | nargout==0
    
    if all(isinf(srcharray(:)))
        r = [];
    else
        clear r_temp;
        r_temp = find(abs(srcharray)==min(abs srcharray(:))));
        if length(r_temp)>1
             r = r_temp(1);
        else
             r = r_temp;
        end
    end
end

[PraveenKumar Jayaram]

Great component!
This solved my problem...