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Re: sorting, ranking
Posted:
Aug 21, 2009 3:53 PM
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"Wyatt " <hello@hello.com> wrote in message
news:h6moqe$sqf$1@fred.mathworks.com...
> that did the trick steve. It just seems to me that
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> rank = temp(I)
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> should be valid syntax,
It is. It just doesn't do what you expect it to do.
> and is more intuitive than writing
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> rank(I) = temp
Why do you say that? "rank = temp(I)" is a valid MATLAB command in this
scenario, but so is "rank = I.^2" or "rank = sin(cos(tan(I)))". Each of
those commands do something different; for the application you described in
your original post, the command that does what you want is "rank(I) = temp".
Although you probably shouldn't use rank as a variable name, unless you're
okay with not being able to use the RANK function in the same piece of code.
> perhaps because I'm thinking that if I wanted to arbitrarily pull out
> values [7 4 9 1] from a vector A I would write
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> A([7 4 9 1])
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> and it would give me the 7th 4th 9th and 1st values from A in that order.
Yes. And if you wanted to store 1:4 into the 7th, 4th, 9th, and 1st
elements of A, you'd use:
A([7 4 9 1]) = (1:4);
Just because one command works does not necessarily rule out a modification
of that command also working and doing something slightly different.
--
Steve Lord
slord@mathworks.com
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