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Re: find
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Mar 3, 2013 7:48 PM
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On Monday, March 4, 2013 1:28:25 PM UTC+13, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 3/3/2013 5:10 PM, a h wrote:
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> > Hey yall
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> > So i have vektor, and i want to find the position in the vektor where
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> >the value is 50.2, but matlab keeps telling me
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> >>> find(x,50.2)
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> > ??? Error using ==> find
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> > Second argument must be a positive scalar integer.
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> > what to do??,
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> http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/find.html
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> ind = find(X, k) or ind = find(X, k, 'first') returns at most the first
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> k indices corresponding to the nonzero entries of X. k must be
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> a positive integer, but it can be of any numeric data type."
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> may be you need find(x==50.2) instead
As Nasser points out, you've got the syntax wrong, but on top of that, since you're using floating point numbers, you should use:
find(abs(x-50.2)<tol)
where tol is a tolerance, say 1e-6.
The reason is explained here:
http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#Why_is_0.3_-_0.2_-_0.1_.28or_similar.29_not_equal_to_zero.3F
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