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Folks
hi,
I want to find some data close to my data like this:
[m,n] matrix and i want to find the location of the # that m would be around for example 19.444 and n would be around in -99.073. But my m and n have xx.xxxxxx format. can someone please help me?
Cheers,
Dave

On 4/26/2012 9:43 AM, dave poreh wrote:
> Folks
> hi,
> I want to find some data close to my data like this:
> [m,n] matrix and i want to find the location of the # that m would
> be around for example 19.444 and n would be around in -99.073. ...

 > x=rand(1,10);x(3)=19.444;
 > x(abs(x-19.444)<0.001)
ans =
    19.4440
 >> idx=find(x(abs(x-19.444)<0.001))
idx =
      1
 >> abs(x-19.444)<0.001
ans =
      0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 >>

You'll have to decide what tolerance is appropriate...

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On 4/26/2012 10:09 AM, dpb wrote:
...

> >> idx=find(x(abs(x-19.444)<0.001))
...

was intended to be

 > idx=find(abs(x-19.444)<0.001)
idx =
      3
 >>

to be of more general interest, of course...

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