How to find consecutive numbers
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So i have an array: a=[16 17 32 33 48 63 79 80 81 97 98 113 114 129 130]
how can i write a program to find where those consecutive numbers are? i've tried using a for loop but haven't really got anywhere.. Please note that at one point there is 3 consecutive numbers.. The idea is each of these numbers is an index of another array: value=[3 0 2 5 3 2 1 0 0 2 7 7 3 7 8]; all equally spaced, which is supposed to mean: realvalue=[30 25 3 2 100 27 73 78]; and im trying to get the array 'realvaue' from arrays 'a' and 'value'
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Thomas
on 2 Apr 2012
diff(a)==1
should do the job for you. It will show you where in a you have consecutive values..
a(diff(a)==1)
Gives the first value
or
p=find(diff(a)==1)
q=[p;p+1];
a(q) % this gives all the pairs of consecutive numbers
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Andrei Bobrov
on 2 Apr 2012
Edited: Andrei Bobrov
on 27 Sep 2016
i1 = 1;
C{i1}=a(i1);
for j1 = 2:numel(a)
t = a(j1)-a(j1-1);
if t == 1
C{i1} = [C{i1} a(j1)];
else
i1 = i1 + 1;
C{i1} = a(j1);
end
end
OR
k= find(diff(a)==1);
k1 = [k;k+1];
idx = reshape(k1(k1~=intersect(k,k+1)),2,[]);
C = arrayfun(@(x)a(idx(1,x):idx(2,x)),1:size(idx,2),'un',0)
ADD
i1 = 1;
C(1)=1;
for j1 = 2:numel(a)
t = a(j1)-a(j1-1);
if t == 1
C(i1) = C(i1) + 1;
else
i1 = i1 + 1;
C(i1) = 1;
end
end
v = [3 0 2 5 3 2 1 0 0 2 7 7 3 7 8];
rv = str2double(mat2cell(sprintf('%d',v),1,C))
OR
k= find(diff(a)==1);
k1 = [k;k+1];
idx = reshape(k1(k1~=intersect(k,k+1)),2,[]);
id = sortrows([idx ones(2,1)*setdiff(1:numel(a),k1(:))].',1).';
C = diff(id)+1;
v = [3 0 2 5 3 2 1 0 0 2 7 7 3 7 8];
rv = str2double(mat2cell(sprintf('%d',v),1,C));
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realvalue = accumarray(cumsum([true diff(a) ~= 1])',value',[],@(x)str2double(sprintf('%d',x')))
new add 2016
t = diff(a) == 1;
y = [t,false];
x = xor(y,[false,t]);
ii = cumsum(~(x|y) + y.*x);
out = accumarray(ii(:),value(:),[],@(z)10.^(numel(z)-1:-1:0)*z);
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Arun Badigannavar
on 27 Sep 2016
Does this work on simulink. parameters? what would be the best way to compare consecutive numbers in simulink dd?
yeungor
on 27 Oct 2016
Andrei definitely seems like a code golfer. Thanks for this, I'm using it to find linear regions in data.
Adil Sbai
on 6 May 2017
Call this function:
function bool = successive(a)
% Determines if all the numbers in a given input 1D array are successive
% integers.
%
assert((size(a,1)==1 || size(a,2)==1) && isa(a,'double'));
a = sort(a);
bool = (abs(max(a)-min(a))+1)==numel(a);
end
These are examples:
>> successive([-1 4 3 0 2 1])
ans =
1
>> successive([-1 4 3 -3 2 1])
ans =
0
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