Hi all

I have the following question:

I have a vector (see attached input example). The vector consists of the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4.
And I would like to replace four (just an example, it can also be five, six or seven) 0 cells after each 1, 2, 3, 4 with the sam enumber that appeared before (see attached output example).
How would you write this?

Thank you in advance.

Lisa

 

Do you strictly mean replace? I mean, what if your input looks like 0,1,0,1,0,1? Your repeating value would overwrite other non-zero values. What would you like to do in that case?

Here is some pseudo-code that may (I haven't debugged nor ran it) be an approach to your question. It has at least one problem in the case where a non-zero value appears within the repetition size of the last entry

input number // from vector
while not eof // or vector; assuming its in a file
	if number != 0 {
		set savednumber=number // save the non-zero number
		set counter=3
		while counter >= 0 { // write it out to the output stream
			output savednumber
			input number // overwrite any previous values by 
                                          // reading and ignoring them.
			counter -= 1
			}
		}
	elseif {
		output 0
		}
	}

 

Hi
Many thanks for you message.
The case that the replacing value will overwrite other non-zer values, doesn't matter. Therefore your code may work.

However, I tested it in Matlab, but it may be written in a another language?

thanks for a short reply again.
best
Lisa

 

solved!!!
lisa

 

solved!!!
lisa

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