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Shrink a 1-D array (vector) by removing all the columns with a value of zero

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SimpleArray = [1,0,2,0,3,0,4,0,5,0]
Desired result
NewSimpleArray = [1,2,3,4,5]

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Jacob Halbrooks
Jacob Halbrooks on 20 Mar 2012
Here is a good solution:
NewSimpleArray = SimpleArray(SimpleArray ~= 0)
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Dr. Seis
Dr. Seis on 20 Mar 2012
SimpleArray(SimpleArray==0) = [];

David
David on 20 Mar 2012
Thanks for the answers and for showing me the previous discussion string (I didn't think this was the first time this question was asked)

seif seif
seif seif on 21 Jan 2018
Edited: seif seif on 21 Jan 2018
Using nonzeros is also very simple (note that the output is a column vector):
NewSimpleArray = nonzeros(SimpleArray)
NewSimpleArray =
1
2
3
4
5
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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 31 Aug 2018
That changes the shape from a row vector to a column vector. However it can be fixed with the code below:
SimpleArray = [1,0,2,0,3,0,4,0,5,0] % Row Vector
NewSimpleArray = nonzeros(SimpleArray) % Creates column vector.
% Reshape back into a row vector.
NewSimpleArray = reshape(NewSimpleArray, 1, [])
saber kazemi
saber kazemi on 12 Dec 2018
How about matrix?
What if the output is still a matrix after removing zero elements?

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Salam Ismaeel
Salam Ismaeel on 31 Aug 2018
Simply by:
X(X==0)=[]

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