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vector operation, selecting chunks

Lorenzo Guerrasio — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:20:17 -0400

Hi guys,

let say I have vector v=100x1, and a matrix M Nx2 with the beginning of Nth chunks in the first coulmn and the end of it in the second.
Is there a smart way to have a second vector v2 made of the chunks of vector v (i mean, without for loop)?

example
v=rand(100,1);
M=[1,4;7,8];

wished result

v2= v(1) v(2) v(3) v(4) v(7) v(8)

thanks in advance

Re: vector operation, selecting chunks

Matt Fig — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:20:18 -0400

One approach using old-school vectorization:

% Some data:
v=round(rand(100,1)*9);
M=[1,4;7,8;80,93];

% The engine:
L = size(M,1);
R = cumsum(M(:,2)-M(:,1)+1);
IDX = ones(1,R(end));
IDX(1) = M(1,1);
IDX(1 + R(1:end-1)) = M(2:L,1) - M(1:L-1,2);
v2 = v(cumsum(IDX));

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Re: vector operation, selecting chunks

Lorenzo Guerrasio — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:35:02 -0400

I've so much to learn
thanks a lot

"Matt Fig" <spamanon@yahoo.com> wrote in message <gq0j8i$if9$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> One approach using old-school vectorization:
>
>
> % Some data:
> v=round(rand(100,1)*9);
> M=[1,4;7,8;80,93];
>
> % The engine:
> L = size(M,1);
> R = cumsum(M(:,2)-M(:,1)+1);
> IDX = ones(1,R(end));
> IDX(1) = M(1,1);
> IDX(1 + R(1:end-1)) = M(2:L,1) - M(1:L-1,2);
> v2 = v(cumsum(IDX));
>
>
>
>
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