Deleting the column with zero values and corresponding columns from another matrix

I have a 4 datasets with 1044 rows and 55 columns.

in one of the the dataset There are few columns which have negative values. (for any column which have negative values that i dont know)

I want to delete the column with the negative values and correspondingly i want to delete the same columns from the other three datasets.

Kindly suggest me how should i proceed with it.

Answer 1

[Voss]

% (1) data setup:

% 4 datasets (i.e., matrices) with 1044 rows and 55 columns:
M1 = rand(1044,55);
M2 = rand(1044,55);
M3 = rand(1044,55);
M4 = rand(1044,55);

% in one of the datasets, a few columns have negative values:
M2(:,[10 12 19 21 29]) = -M2(:,[10 12 19 21 29]);

% (2) delete the columns with negative values from all datasets:

% idx is a vector of logicals, saying whether 
% each column in M2 has any negative values:
idx = any(M2 < 0,1);

% delete those columns from all datasets:
M1(:,idx) = [];
M2(:,idx) = [];
M3(:,idx) = [];
M4(:,idx) = [];

[Arvind Gauns]

it worked.

thanks

[Voss]

You're welcome!