Detecting Entire Column has the same integer value

Hello, I need to determine whether the entire row has the same integer value. For example;
A=[1 1;
1 0.5;
1 0.5]; The first column is all ones. Therefore, I need ans = [1 0]
However,
A=[0.5 -1
0.5 0
0.5 1]; The first column is all 0.5. I need ans = [0 0]

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Your title asks for identical values within the entire column but within your question you ask about identical values in rows. The two examples you gave don't make sense either because both of them show identical values in column 1 but the expected outputs you shared differ. Also, the expected outputs you shared are 1 x 2 vectors so I'm guessing that you want to focus on columns, not rows (since there are 2 cols, and 3 rows).
Adam, in the second example, the result for column 1 is zero because there are no integers in that column (0.5 is not an integer).
Image Analyst is right. Let me introduce one more example
If A = [0.5 1
0.5 1
0.5 1] the ans should be ans = [0 1]
ahhh..... right.
I updated my answer to account for integers.

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 Accepted Answer

Try this:
if a(:,1)==a(1,1)&mod(a(1,1),1)==0
Ans=[1 0];
else
Ans=[0 0];
end

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Thank you in advance :)
This solution only analyzes the first column which would produce the following result which indicates that col 2 does not contain duplicate integers, but it does.
a=[1 1;
1 2;
1 2];
Ans = [1,0]
See my answer for a simpler and cleaner solution that generalizes to any number of columns and considers all columns.

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More Answers (2)

To determine which columns contain identical values,
A=[1 1;
1 0.5;
1 0.5];
B = all(diff(A,[],1) == 0,1) % B = [1,0]
To determine which columns contain identical values that are integers,
B = all(diff(A,[],1) == 0,1) & mod(A(1,:),1)==0
Here's another way that works, though probably not the most compact
A=[1 1;
1 0.5;
1 0.5] % The first column is all ones. Therefore, I need ans = [1 0]
% Set non-integers to nan
mask = A == int32(A)
[rows, columns] =size(A);
output = zeros(1, columns); % Preallocate output.
for col = 1 : columns
% Set output to 1 if all of the values equal the first value.
if all(mask(:, col))
output(col) = all(A(:, col) == A(1, col));
end
end
output % Echo to command window.
A=[0.5 -1
0.5 0
0.5 1] % The first column is all 0.5. I need ans = [0 0]
% Set non-integers to nan
mask = A == int32(A)
[rows, columns] =size(A);
output = zeros(1, columns); % Preallocate output.
for col = 1 : columns
% Set output to 1 if all of the values equal the first value.
if all(mask(:, col))
output(col) = all(A(:, col) == A(1, col));
end
end
output % Echo to command window.

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