Removing non unique elements from an array after n entries

If I have an array:

[1 2 3 4 5 6 8 1 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 .... 5]
                                   ^

How can I remove the remaining 5s after say, here?

[Sean]

I want to be able to delete after ten 5s (or after some number of 5s in the array) the remaining values in the array without prior knowledge of the location (^).

[Cedric]

Should the first 5 (between 4 and 6) be accounted in the count of 5s?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

out = yourVector(1:18);

[Image Analyst]

Regarding your additional comment:

m = [1 2 3 4 5 6 8 1 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5]
maxNumber = 7; % How many 5's do you want to keep.
indexes = find(m == 5)
m_out = m(1 : indexes(maxNumber))