How to increase count for different counters in if loop.

I'm trying to make a counter during iterations of trials. I've been using the code below. I want count, fillcount and expcount to increase. However fillcount and expcount can only increase when a certain variable (itemtype) is a certain number.

when I run this code count increases but expcount and fillcount don't but I don't know why. All help is greatly appreciated!

 a=ones(length(item),1);%vector of 1s for number of experimental pairs
  b=2*ones(length(fillerorder),1); %vector of 2s for number of fillers
  c=[a;b];
  itemtype=c(randperm(numel(c)));%vector of 1s and 2s, 1=experimentalpair 2=filler

fillcount=1;
expcount=1;
count=0;

while count<=9

count=count+1;

   if itemtype==1
      fillcount=fillcount;
       fillcount=fillcount+1 %increase counter by 1

   elseif itemtype==2
       expcount=expcount;
       expcount=expcount+2 %increase counter by 2
   end

end

Answer 1

[A Jenkins]

You are comparing the entire itemtype array to the numbers 1 and 2. Perhaps you want to compare just one element of the array?

if itemtype(count)==1

..

elseif itemtype(count)==2

..

[Alice]

Thank you so much! I knew it was something like that but couldn't for the life of me figure it out! You have saved me days!!