how to make a loop(for...end)

I'm a new guy for matlab loop. Righi now I want to now some rools about loop(for...end). Such as how to make a loop to get all odd numbers from a matrix x=[1:100] or numbers like 1,5,9,13,17,21...? p.s.I know this x1=x(1:2:100) and x4=(1:4:100),but I want to know how to get it from a loop(for...end).

[Nahla Mohsen]

Write a program to find and print the value of A such that A=1+1/2+1/3+….+1/n

[Walter Roberson]

@Nahla Mohsen

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/6200-tutorial-how-to-ask-a-question-on-answers-and-get-a-fast-answer

Answer 1

[Matt Fig]

It would be good if you learned to pre-allocate your vectors so your code runs efficiently...

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EDIT In response to question about generalization.

The general case can be written:

N = 100; % The largest number.  Change to whatever...
a = 1;  % The starting point.  Change to 3,5... whatever
n = zeros(1,ceil((N-a)/2)); % Pre-allocate the array...

for ii = 1:length(n)
    n(ii) = 2*(ii)+(a-2);
end

[Paulo Silva]

Matt that will introduce some problems that the OP might not understand yet

[Matt Fig]

Hmm, the only problem I see is how to calculate an odd number from any integer k, 2*k-1. That seems trivial, what problems are you talking about? It seems to me that folks might as well learn to do things the correct way, or they will come back later and say, "Why is my code sooo slow?"

[Paulo Silva]

If you don't know the space needed to allocate? you allocate more than enough and have to discard part of the values, not a big problem but might confuse new users.

[Tian Lin]

hi,Matt,If the matrix likes x=[1.6,2.7,3.5,4.4,5.2,6.8,7.9,8.4,9.1,10.2],how can I use your code to get this a=[1.6,3.5,5.2,7.9,9.1]?

[Matt Fig]

That is a different question!

N = length(x); % The largest number. Change to whatever...

a = 1; % The starting point. Change to 3,5... whatever

n = zeros(1,ceil((N-a)/2)); % Pre-allocate the array...

for ii = 1:length(n)

n(ii) = x(2*(ii)+(a-2));

end

[Matt Fig]

Note the change to N in the previous response....

[Tian Lin]

thanks,I try to get [1.6,4.4,7.9,10.2] and change the code like this:

N = length(x); % The largest number. Change to whatever...

a = 1; % The starting point. Change to 3,5... whatever

n = zeros(1,ceil((N-a)/3)); % Pre-allocate the array...

for ii = 1:length(n)

n(ii) = x(3*(ii)+(a-3));

end

but only got [1.6,4.4,7.9],there was no 10.2 in it,what's wrong with my changing?

[Matt Fig]

Boy, you keep changing the problem! That is o.k., you will just have to realize that changing the problem changes the approach:

N = length(x); % The largest number. Change to whatever...

a = 1; % The starting point. Change to 3,5... whatever

S = 3;

n = zeros(1,floor((N-a)/(S))+1); % Pre-allocate the array...

for ii = 1:length(n)

n(ii) = x(S*(ii)+(a-S));

end

[Tian Lin]

man,that's cool,I only need to change S and a to get the best result.Thank you very much.I believe some day I can write the code by myself,like you.

Answer 2

[Paulo Silva]

n=[];
for a=1:2:100
n=[n a];
end

[Tian Lin]

thanks,if I want to do this: a=2:2:100,a=3:2:100,a=4:2:100,...,a=100:2:100.how to write a loop?

[Walter Roberson]

for K = 1:100

a = K:2:100;

%here, do something with the vector "a"

end

[Tian Lin]

if I have numbers larger than 100,just like 10000,whether I will write 10000 "for"?

Answer 3

[Walter Roberson]

Please don't do that: please read this FAQ instead.

Answer 4

[Paulo Silva]

clc
n={};
c=0;
for b=2:100
    n1=[];
    for a=b:2:100
        n1=[n1 a];
    end
    c=c+1;
    n{c,1}=n1;
end

The result is inside the n variable, n is a cell, each element of it contains the results n{1,1} gives you the odd numbers for 2:2:100, n{2,1} gives the odd numbers for 3:2:100 and so on...

No pre-allocation, Matt is right, it's faster with pre-allocation of memory but a little more effort from your part in understand it.

[Tian Lin]

thank you Paulo.It's hard to me to understand something like reduce using memory.Also,I don't know the cell very much,so I find Matt's code much esaier.whatever,thanks a lot.