hie all

lets say i have y=[0 1 0 1]

and want to replace the first element, y(1), with [0 0 0 0]

is there a way of doing this

plz help

 

y(1) refers to the very first number in that array, which is 0.

You can't replace y(1) with a whole array unless y is a 'cell array'.

You can write y(1) = 0, but since it's already 0 that won't do anything.
You can change [0 1 0 1] to [0 0 0 0] in several ways.

For example;
y = [0 1 0 1]
y(2) = 0
You get: y = [0 0 0 1]
y(4) = 0
You get: y = [0 0 0 0]

Or, you could just say:
y = [0 0 0 0]

 

should have said:

lets say i have an array y=[0 1 0 1]

and want to replace every 1 in the array y with 0

therefore final output is y=[0 0 0 0]



ok here we go

y=[0 1 0 1];

ones=find(y==1);

y(ones)=0;

y %matlab returns y=[0 0 0 0]

 

Unless you really wanted to know which particular array elements were "ones" or whether the array had non-zero elements, the exercise seems kind of pointless.

Just setting the array to all zeros accomplishes the same result.

why not simply write

y=zeros(y)