Sum up values depending on entries in another column

Hi,

With the friendly helpf of this forum I was able to count specific values but now there is a last hurdle:

I've got a column vector 300x1 witch contains strings, say:

vector1 = [A;A;B;A;B;B;C;A;C]

and another vector with values, say:

vector2 = [5;2;0;1;4;2;1;3;1]

Now I want to sum up the values in vector 2 for each (same) string, which should look like:

vector3 = [5;7;0;8;4;6;1;11;2]

NOTE: Later on I would like to add more crterions than only the string name.

How can I achieve this?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

[David Hill]

vector1=['AABABBCAC']';
vector2=[5 2 0 1 4 2 1 3 1]';
vector3=zeros(size(vector2));
a=unique(vector1);
for k=1:length(a)
    vector3(ismember(vector1,a(k)))=cumsum(vector2(ismember(vector1,a(k))));
end

[buhmatlab]

Great, this works! Thank you!!