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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 329

How to assign the second recurring element from another vectors zero values?

For example I have a one vector:

y = [21 19 15 17 18 19 25 36 48 19 19]'

In y vector I have a recurring element 19. And I should another vector, in which all elements are equal to one, but if the element has already met for the second time or greater, then assign it a value of zero:

l = [1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0]'

How to do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 28

Answers (1)

Luis Mendo
Luis Mendo

Reputation: 112699

The second output of unique tells you when a number appears for the first time; that is, which positions in the result should be set to 1:

y = [21 19 15 17 18 19 25 36 48 19 19]';
[~ ,v] = unique(y, 'stable');
l = zeros(size(y));
l(v) = 1;

Another approach, using implicit expansion, is as follows. This is less efficient because it computes an intermediate N×N matrix, where N is the size of the input:

y = [21 19 15 17 18 19 25 36 48 19 19]';
l = ~any(triu(y==y.', 1), 1).';

Upvotes: 2

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