Subtract two vectors while shifting them along
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Suppose we have two vectors
A = [1 2 3 4];
B = [4 3 2 1];
My goal is to shift them along and get the differences for each position. So for the first combination
[1 2 3 4]
-[4 3 2 1]
the result would be:
C = [0] % difference of 1 and 1
For the second:
C = [-1 1] % differences of 1-2 and 2-1
For the third:
C = [-2 0 -2]
and so on.
I'm stuck on programming a function that works for two vectors of arbitrary sizes, especially how to handle the leading and lagging numbers. For further processing, it would be great to be able to assign NaN to those.
Thanks in advance.
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Aveek Podder
on 17 Jan 2018
Edited: Aveek Podder
on 17 Jan 2018
Hi,
You can use length command of Matlab to get the size of the array and write a for loop and proper indexing of the array to get the C vector done. Please have a look at the code below.
L_A = length(A)
L_B = length(B)
for i = 1:min(L_A,L_B)
C = A(1:i) - B((L_B-i+1):L_B)
end
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