Best Way to create bigger table?

Hello everybody,

I need to create a Table for my calculations in Matlab. The Table is supposed to be about 2x300 Cells in size, I need to type the numbers in myself. So I'm wondering what the quickest way would be to do that. Meaning: Which way involves the least amount of characters and symbols.

The table should have a a row/colum with indexing numbers and another one with the value for that specific number. It should be possible to extract that specific number by calling the index number. So, i.e.

2   4
3   6
4   8

And when I call "3" in my calculation it will use "6" as the value for the calculation.

I'm having quite a hard time getting myself motivated, so I'm trying to make it as quick as possible... I know that I just could type it in with the "table" command, but I don't know which is the quickest way to make the indexing possible.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

You can create a function handle like this

A = [...
    2   4
    3   6
    4   8];

A_fun = @(x) A(A(:,1)==x, 2);

Examples

>> A_fun(2)
ans =
     4
>> A_fun(3)
ans =
     6
>> A_fun(4)
ans =
     8

[Leon Stolp]

Thank you!

Do you have an idea how to interpolate results within this example? i.e. between 2 and 3?

[Ameer Hamza]

Yes. See interp1(). Example

y = interp1([2 3 4], [4 6 7], 2.5)