Delete individual elements in a cell array - arrays

I have a 100 X 1 (n1) cell array with each cell holding indices of a bigger data set(100 X 100, n2). I made a nested loop in order to access each individual element(index) and compare the values of another data set with these indices with a if condition. If the condition succeeds, I want to delete that element from the original cell array into a new cell array. However when I set the element to [] in matlab, the value of the cell array does not change. The code is below:
for i = 1:length(n1)
for j = 1:length(n1{i, 1})
if n2(i,n1{i,1}(1,j)) > n3(i) && n2(i, n1{i,1}(1,j)) > n4(n1{i, 1}(1, j))
n1{i,1}(1,j) == [];
end
end
end

I take that n1(i,1) is always a row vector so you should use,
n1{i,1}(j) = [];
If n1(i,1) is not a column or row then removing an element from middle would be impossible.
for example:
A = {[1 2 3],[5 8 9]}
A{1,2}(1,2) = []
gives the error: A null assignment can have only one non-colon index.
But A{1,2}(2) = [] is okey.

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Concatenate cell array in MATLAB

In Matlab you can concatenate arrays by saying:
a=[];
a=[a,1];
How do you do something similar with a cell array?
a={};
a={a,'asd'};
The code above keeps on nesting cells within cells. I just want to append elements to the cell array. How do I accomplish this?
If a and b are cell arrays, then you concatenate them in the same way you concatenate other arrays: using []:
>> a={1,'f'}
a =
1×2 cell array
{[1]} {'f'}
>> b={'q',5}
b =
1×2 cell array
{'q'} {[5]}
>> [a,b]
ans =
1×4 cell array
{[1]} {'f'} {'q'} {[5]}
You can also use the functional form, cat, in which you can select along which dimension you want to concatenate:
>> cat(3,a,b)
1×2×2 cell array
ans(:,:,1) =
{[1]} {'f'}
ans(:,:,2) =
{'q'} {[5]}
To append a single element, you can do a=[a,{1}], but this is not efficient (see this Q&A). Instead, do a{end+1}=1 or a(end+1)={1}.
Remember that a cell array is just an array, like any other. You use the same tools to manipulate them, including indexing, which you do with (). The () indexing returns the same type of array as the one you index into, so it returns a cell array, even if you index just a single element. Just about every value in MATLAB is an array, including 6, which is a 1x1 double array.
The {} syntax is used to create a cell array, and to extract its content: a{1} is not a cell array, it extracts the contents of the first element of the array.
{5, 8, 3} is the same as [{5}, {8}, {3}]. 5 is a double array, {5} is a cell array containing a double array.
a{5} = 0 is the same as a(5) = {0}.

Assign values to an array of indexes in Python

I have an array of size 300x5. In this the column with index 3 consists if some index and column with index 4 consists of corresponding values.
I have created new array in which I am trying to assign the values in index 4 at index 3 locations in this new array. I tried this but it throws an error.
new_arr[old_arr[:,3]] = old_arr[:,4]
One of the example related to what I want to do
new_arr = np.ones((200,1))
new_arr[[2,3,4]] = [22,44,11]
It throws an error
ValueError: shape mismatch: value array of shape (3,) could not be broadcast to indexing result of shape (3,1)
With this code : new_arr[old_arr[:,3]] you try to access new_arr that index come from values are in old_arr[:,3] and you got IndexError.
Is this help you?
new_arr = np.zeros((300, 5))
new_arr[:,3] = old_arr[:,4]
For edited question you need reshape:
new_arr = np.ones((200,1))
new_arr[[2,3,4]] = np.array([2,4,6]).reshape(3,1)
# OR
# new_arr[2:5] = np.array([22,44,11]).reshape(3,1)

Choose elements from array randomly in matlab and store the remain element

I have array contain 1 column with 225 rows and I want to select 170 elements from these elements randomly and store it in another array also store the remain elements at another array, I used this code to choose randomly elements but I don't know how I can store the remain elements (55) at another array !
Code : my original array A
msize = numel(A);
firstpart = A(randperm(msize, 170))
secondpart = !!!!! ( remain elements ) % This is my question
Instead of throwing away the other elements, just get a permutation of all of them and then partition the array:
msize = numel(A);
allperm = A(randperm(msize));
firstpart = allperm(1:170);
secondpart = allperm(171:end);
You can use boolean indexing.
A = rand(255,1); % just generating an example matrix
indices = false(size(A));
indices(randsample(1:numel(A),170)) = true; % select what to keep
firstpart = A(indices);
secondpart = A(~indices);

MatLab find cells with specific values in two cell arrays

I want to find cells, which are at the same position in two different cell arrays and which have specific values.
The two cell arrays have the following structure:
cell array C1= cell(20,1). In each cell there is another cell cell(8129,8) holding double values in the range of [0,1].
Cell array C2= cell(20,1). In each cell there is another cell cell(8192,8) also holding double values in the range of [0,1].
I know want to find those cells, which (1) have a specific value that I determine (e.g. C1_value = 0.8 and C2_value = 0.85) and (2) are at the same position in the respective sub cell (!) array (e.g. C1{2}(736) == 0.8 and C2(19)(736) == 0.85). NOTE: The same position only refers to the subcell arrays (cell(8192,8)) not the "main" cell arrays C1(:) and C2(:)
Thanks in advance!
See if this approach works for you -
sz = cell2mat(cellfun(#size,C1(1),'uni',0))
row1 = sz(1);
col1 = sz(2);
t1 = reshape(horzcat(C1{:}),row1,col1,[])
t2 = reshape(horzcat(C2{:}),row1,col1,[])
b1 = t1==C1_value
b2 = t2==C2_value
tt1 = reshape(b1,row1*col1,[])' %//'
tt2 = reshape(b2,row1*col1,[])' %//'
tt22 = permute(tt2,[3 2 1])
tt3 = bsxfun(#and,tt1,tt22)
[C1_cellnum,subcellnum,C2_cellnum] = ind2sub(size(tt3),find(tt3)) %// outputs
Thus, with your sample data, you must have -
C1_cellnum as 2, C2_cellnum as 19 and subcellnum as 736.

How to find the occurences of the elements of first cell array in second cell array in MATLAB?

I have two cell arrays:
A={'abc','pai','abd','pa/n/v/d'}
B={'pai-pro','abc','pai','abd/','abd','pa/n/v/d','abd-','pa/n/v/d','pai-pro'}
I need a code to find the occurrence of the elements of A in B. Such that the output would be:
'abc' = 1
'pai' = 3
'abd' = 3
'pa/n/v/d' = 2
This will do it:
for i = 1:length(A)
sum(cell2mat(strfind(cellstr(B),A{i})))
end
For each element of A, you can do the following to get its occurrence in B
[isPresent, index] = ismember(A{1}, B)
The index will contain the location of the element A{i} in B if it is present indicated by the isPresent variable.

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