Storing the results from nested loop

Hello, I have reviewed other posts and videos on this but those solutions did not work - well, not elegantly. How do I store each iteration of the following nested loop?
for a=0:3
A= 2*a
for b=a+1:6
B=3*b
for c=b+1:10
C=4*c
vec=[A B C] % to store output of each iteration
end
plot(vec,'r--') % plot each iteration in its entirety, each time
end
end

 Accepted Answer

count = 0 ;
vec = zeros([],3) ;
for a=0:3
A= 2*a ;
for b=a+1:6
B=3*b ;
for c=b+1:10
count = count+1 ;
C=4*c ;
vec(count,:)=[A B C] ; % to store output of each iteration
end
plot(vec(count,:),'r--') % plot each iteration in its entirety, each time
end
end

2 Comments

I think this needs a
figure;
hold on;
before the first loop to avoid overwriting each plot at each iteration.
thanks both!
KSSV, to retrieve the values of a,b,c for which the sum maximum. And plot the calcuated A,B,C up to these values on a,b,c. How could I do that?
%
count = 0 ;
vec = zeros([],3) ;
for a=0:3
A= 2*a ;
for b=a+1:6
B=3*b ;
for c=b+1:10
C=4*c ;
count = count+1 ;
vec(count,:)=sum([A B C]) ;
end
max(vec) % what were the values of a, b,c for this
% plot
end
end

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Guillaume
Guillaume on 27 Jun 2018
Edited: Guillaume on 27 Jun 2018
You could of course not bother with the loops at all:
a = 0:3;
b = a(1)+1:6; %too many elements, the extra will be removed later
c = b(1)+1:10; %too many elements, the extra will be removed later
[A, B, C] = ndgrid(a, b, c);
abc = [A(:), B(:), C(:)];
%now remove unwanted entries
abc(abc(:, 2) <= abc(:, 1) | abc(:, 3) <= abc(:, 2), :) = [];
%calculate vec and plot all
vec = abc .* [2 3 4];
plot([1 2 3], vec, 'r--');

2 Comments

Im coding an optimization. compared with KSSV and my own code, yours gives a slightly different answer - might be the actual right answer too but ill check on it. thanks for the vectorized format!
The orders of the rows is different, but I'm assuming it does not matter. If it does, at the end:
vec = sortrows(vec);

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