Deleting zeros and NaN in a matrix

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I have a matrix containing zerros and NaN's. Now i want to delete the rows if it consists zero or Nan
for ex if i have a matrix
A=[2 3 36 9
Nan 54 20 23
85 69 10 30
20 Nan 20 30
1 0 8 20
2 6 8 9]
i want to delete rows containing zeros and Nan's
so i will have output as
out=[2 3 36 9
85 69 10 30
2 6 8 9]
Please help,i have matrix containing 1078x8 values

Accepted Answer

Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 13 Jul 2012
I'd do this:
nanRows = any(isnan(A), 2)
zeroRows = any(A==0, 2)
badRows = nanRows | zeroRows
A(badRows, :) = []
Of course you could compress all that into a single line if you want but I just used separate lines for tutorial purposes so you can see what's going on. In the command window you see:
A =
2 3 36 9
NaN 54 20 23
85 69 10 30
20 NaN 20 30
1 0 8 20
2 6 8 9
nanRows =
0
1
0
1
0
0
zeroRows =
0
0
0
0
1
0
badRows =
0
1
0
1
1
0
A =
2 3 36 9
85 69 10 30
2 6 8 9
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Pat
Pat on 14 Jul 2012
i tried using ru comment using cell2mat for first 4 columns,i got
r
2 56 NaN 5
NaN 2 0 20
10 2 3 6
1 20 30 40
ten i tried concanateing r and last column i get error as
Error using ==> horzcat
CAT arguments dimensions are not consistent.
please help i need output for above matrix as
10 2 3 6 'c'
1 20 30 40 'd'
please help
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 14 Jul 2012
Edited: Image Analyst on 14 Jul 2012
Why do you want to concatenate the last column when you just went to the trouble to strip it off? You don't need it to do what you asked originally.
If A is still in the workbook, you can do this first before you run my code above:
[A text raw]=xlsread('zz.xls');
to get A out of the workbook and into a variable in MATLAB.

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More Answers (1)

Kye Taylor
Kye Taylor on 13 Jul 2012
Try
A(any(isnan(A),2)|any(A==0,2),:) = []
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Pat
Pat on 14 Jul 2012
Walter i tried
[num text raw]=xlsread('zz.xls');
A=raw;
nanRows = any(isnan(A), 2)
zeroRows = any(A==0, 2)
badRows = nanRows | zeroRows
A(badRows, :) = []
But i get error
??? Undefined function or method 'isnan' for input arguments of type 'cell'.
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 14 Jul 2012
[num text raw]=xlsread('zz.xls');
A=num;
nanRows = any(isnan(A), 2)
zeroRows = any(A==0, 2)
badRows = nanRows | zeroRows
A(badRows, :) = []

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