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Mushi
Mushi

Reputation: 367

Check for duplicate entries in a large matrix matlab

I have a very large matrix (901x1801) which I generated by combining values of three similar arrays (with repeated values in them) to generate unique codes using a mathematical expression. The matrix is filled with these codes.

My question is... How can I check that each values of the matrix (901x1801) is unique and not repeating even a single time?

Or... Can anyone tell me how can I generate a matrix by combining three arrays of similar elements in a way that each generated value will be unique.

an early reply will be greatly appciable. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 13831

Answers (2)

edgar.holleis
edgar.holleis

Reputation: 5001

To find the positions of duplicates in M, use the following code:

V = M(:);                           % flatten
[Vs, Vi] = sort(V);                 % sort, Vi are indices into V
delta = Vs(2:end) - Vs(1:end-1);    % delta==0 means duplicate
dup1 = Vi(find(delta == 0));        % dup1 has indices of duplicates in V
dup2 = Vi(find(delta == 0) + 1);    % dup2 has the corresponding other 
                                    % rewrite to [row col]
[dup1(:,1) dup1(:,2)] = ind2sub(size(M), dup1);
[dup2(:,1) dup2(:,2)] = ind2sub(size(M), dup2);

The rows of dup1 and dup2 now contain positions in M that are duplicate.

Upvotes: 4

Pursuit
Pursuit

Reputation: 12345

With a large matrix M, to get all the unique values, use:

uniqueValues = unique(M(:));

Then, to understand if there were any repeated values, you could use:

repeatedValuesFound = numel(uniqueValues) ~= numel(M);

That is, if the array of unique values has the same number of elements as the original array, then all elements of the original array must be unique.

Upvotes: 5

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