How to replace data in a matrix by comparing from another matrix?

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I have a matrix A,
[1 5
2 6
3 6
4 7
5 6]
and I have another matrix B as
[1 2
1 3
1 4
1 5
2 3
2 4
3 4
3 5
4 5]
now i want to compare B with a and i want to replace 2nd column of B with A data for example,
[1 5
1 5
1 5
1 5
2 6
2 6
3 6
3 6
4 7]
in first column when there is 1 it will take the value of matrix A's second column data as 5 and when first column is having 2 it will take the value of 2 from matrix A.
please please help me.

Accepted Answer

David Sanchez
David Sanchez on 5 May 2015
for k=1:length(B)
x = A(:,1)==B(k,1);
B(k,2) = A(x,2);
end
B =
1 5
1 5
1 5
1 5
2 6
2 6
3 6
3 6
4 7

More Answers (2)

Andrei Bobrov
Andrei Bobrov on 5 May 2015
Edited: Andrei Bobrov on 5 May 2015
[lo,ii] = ismember(B(:,1),A(:,1));
out = B;
out(lo,2) = A(ii(lo),2);
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Nobel Mondal
Nobel Mondal on 5 May 2015
Assuming, the 'a' matrix has unique values in the first column
for bRow= 1:size(b, 1)
aRow = find(a(:,1)==b(bRow,1), 1);
if ~isempty(aRow)
b(thisrow,2) = a(aRow,2);
end
end

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