Storing Data in Zero Vectors

Good Evening, I have a very simple question which I have been struggling with.

LocationSquares = zeros (1:500)
out5 = Columns 1 through 7

            35          36          38          46          48          49          50
        735804      735788      735787      735816      735770      735788      735774

for Area = 1:500 
  if  out5(1,i) == Area
    Date = out5(2,i)
    if out5(1,i) ~= Area
      DateofOB = 0 
    end 
  end
end
LocationSquare(Area) = DateofOB

My out5 length varies for each year, not each location point has data for each year. I would like to store the date in the zero space of the corresponding Location Square, so 35 in the #35 zero space etc. Right now it's all a bit of a mess and I seem to be storing dates in each LocationSquare, but it isn't right there is a lot of repetition that shouldn't be occurring.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[dpb]

 LocationSquares = zeros (1:500);

will create a 500-D array of dimensions

size(LocationSquares)=[1,2,3,...,500];

This is highly unlikely what you intend; perhaps

 LocationSquares = zeros(1,500);

maybe?

Answer 1

[dpb]

Aren't you just looking for

LocationSquare(out5(1,:)) = out5(2,:);