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Adding a new column to a matrix under certain constraints.

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Hi!
I'm having trouble coming up with how to get what I want. I think a picture will best explain what I'm trying to do.
I want to add a new column to my matrix the following way. It starts counting from 1 and changes everytime the two columns are no longer the same.
So for example for the first three rows both columns are the same, at row 4 they change so the counter changes to 2, at row 5 they change again so once again the counter changes to 3 etc.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Abderrahim. B
Abderrahim. B on 19 Aug 2022
Hi!
This a way to do this logic you described in the question, maybe there better ways !
clear
% Dummy data
wp = [[ones(7,1); 2*ones(2,1); ones(8,1)] , randi(3, 17,1) ] ;
% Preallocation and setting first element of the 3rd column to 1
wpDiff = diff(wp) ;
wpNewCol = zeros(length(wp), 1) ;
wpNewCol(1) = 1 ;
% Algorithm
for ii = 2:length(wpNewCol)
if ~ any(wpDiff(ii-1, :))
wpNewCol(ii ) = wpNewCol(ii - 1) ;
else
wpNewCol(ii) = wpNewCol(ii -1) + 1;
end
end
% New wp
new_wp = [wp, wpNewCol]
new_wp = 17×3
1 3 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 3 3 1 3 3 2 1 4 2 2 5 1 2 6
Hope this helps

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