finding index of several values within a vector efficiently
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I am trying to find the index of 'several' values within an array/vector. For instance, I have a vector [1 2 5] and matrix X=[1 5 4 3 2]. I want it to return [1 5 2]. I could write a for loop that finds each values in that vector such as find(X==1), then find(X==2) ..., but I was hoping there is a vectorized way to do this. Thanks.
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the cyclist
on 2 Dec 2012
v = [1 2 5];
X = [1 5 4 3 2];
[tf loc] = ismember(v,X);
"loc" is the vector you want.
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Matt Fig
on 2 Dec 2012
Edited: Matt Fig
on 2 Dec 2012
idx = [1 2 5];
X = [1 5 4 3 2];
vals = X(idx) % linear indexing.
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the cyclist
on 2 Dec 2012
If I am interpreting Jimmian's question correctly, this method only gives the correct answer to the example because of a numerical coincidence. For example, if
X = [0 0 0 0 0 1 5 4 3 2]
then I think he wants the output to be
loc = [6 10 7]
and not
[0 0 0].
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