I have a matrix with values from -180 to 180 and i want to find all the places where each value is and then save them in a new matrix, how can i do it?

I want to create a for loop that goes for values -180:1:180 and finds all the locations(i,j) for each value. e.g i want to find all the locations for value -180 and then save them in a new matrix. is it possible to be done? i wrote here the code for the loop function and it works but i dont know how to save the values so as to know which location is for each value.

for a= 180:-1:-180

   [i,j]=find(ORIENT==a)

end

Answer 1

[mbonus]

Is this what you're looking for?

Result = [];
for a = -180:180
    [ind1,ind2] = find(ORIENT == a);
    Result(a,1) = ind1;%save the row number to row a
    Result(a,2) = ind2;%save the column number to row a
    try
        Result(a,3) = ORIENT(ind1,ind2);%save the value for the indices ind1&ind2
    catch
        Result(a,3) = NaN;%save NaN if there is no corresponding value for the indices
    end
end

[abbxucy11]

unfortunately this doesnt work. Basically i want to find a way to save the results in two different matrixes, one for the i's and one for the j's.. any ideas? your code makes senses but it has an error at the line: result (a,1)

[mbonus]

Are you getting multiple values returned for each index in the find? I assumed that there was only one of each value in the matrix ORIENT. Do you want every i in a single matrix and every j in a single matrix? if so I would suggest a cell array because that allows you to have different column or row lengths if there is an unknown number of each value of a in the matrix ORIENT

Answer 2

[Star Strider]

Since ‘a’ is a vector, ‘j’ will always be 1. So forget about the loop and just calculate them directly:

i = 1:361;
a = 181 - i;