Finding a specific row in a matrix based on user inputs?
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I have a matrix with 365 rows and 7 columns, the first column is the month (1-12) and the second column is a day of that month. The user inputs what month they want to look at in a numeric value (1-12) and then the day they want (1-31), but then I need to take that input data and only find the array with those two specific values, I have no clue how to copy just that row based on those two inputs.
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KALYAN ACHARJYA
on 27 Feb 2020
Edited: KALYAN ACHARJYA
on 27 Feb 2020
#Do the necessary changes, as required
%let say mat_data is the main matrix
mat_data=[1 1 3 4 56
1 2 3 4 50
1 3 4 5 90
2 3 5 6 70];
month=input('Enter the Month Any value 1-12: ');
day=input('Enter the Day Any value 1-31: ');
disp('The details is ');
mat_data(mat_data(:,1)==month & mat_data(:,2)==day,:)
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KSSV
on 27 Feb 2020
Why to use find when we have logical indexing at best?
KALYAN ACHARJYA
on 27 Feb 2020
Yes, thanks for pointing it out
Let A be your matrix of size 365*7.
themonths = A(:,1) ;
thedays = A(:,2) ;
% Let us say I want 7th month and 7th day indices
m = 7 ; d = 7 ;
idx = themonths == m && thedays == d ;
iwant = A(idx,:) ;
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