for loop for two particular days of a week

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Hi,
I am trying to make a for loop counting each monday and thursay for some period of time like one year. I want to start with coming Monday, 08/08/2022 counting it as 1 then Thursday 4, next monday 8, next Thursday 11 and upto a total of 100 Monday plus Thursday.
The vector looks like this V=[1 4 8 11 ......................]. It is going to be inconvinent to write all elements of this vector if a long period of time like 2 years choosen. I am trying to use a for loop and generalize above vector.
Any suggestions will be highly apperciated.
Thanks
Dharma

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sudobash
sudobash on 7 Aug 2022
Hi!
As per my understanding, you want to create a vector of the following sequence: 1, 4, 8, 11, 15, 18,...
This is how you could do it using a while loop:
vec = [1];
while length(vec) < 100
% Check if previous element was Monday
if mod(length(vec),2) == 1
% Add 3 to last element to get Thursday
vec = [vec vec(end)+3];
else
% Add 4 to last element to get back Monday
vec = [vec vec(end)+4];
end
end
vec
vec = 1×100
1 4 8 11 15 18 22 25 29 32 36 39 43 46 50 53 57 60 64 67 71 74 78 81 85 88 92 95 99 102
Hope this solves your problem.
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Dharma Khatiwada
Dharma Khatiwada on 7 Aug 2022
Thank you!
I just have one more question.
I need to write a for loop below vector 'vec' such that loop picks only for the element of 'vec'.
For example, for i=1, 4, 8, 11, 15, ...........
c2(i)=...............
Could you please help me?
Dharma

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Voss
Voss on 7 Aug 2022
n_weeks = 50;
vec = reshape((0:n_weeks-1)*7+[1;4],1,[]);

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