I have the following vector a:
a=[8,8,9,9,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8]
From a I want to delete all "adjacent" repetitions to obtain:
b=[8,9,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
However, when I do:
unique(a,'stable')
ans =
8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
You see, unique only really gets the unique elements of a, whereas what I want is to delete the "duplicates"... How do I do this?
It looks like a run-length-encoding problem (check here). You can modify Mohsen's solution to get the desired output. (i.e. I claim no credit for this code, yet the question is not a duplicate in my opinion).
Here is the code:
a =[8,8,9,9,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8]
F=find(diff([a(1)-1, a]));
Since diff(a) returns an array of length (length(a) -1), we want to add a value at the beginning (i.e the a(1)) to get a vector the same size as a. Here we subtract 1 so that, as mentioned by @surgical_tubing, the command find effectively finds it because it looks for non zero elements, so we want to make sure the value is non zero.
Hence diff([a(1)-1, a]) looks like this:
Columns 1 through 8
1 0 1 0 -8 0 1 0
Columns 9 through 16
1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
Columns 17 through 20
1 0 1 0
Now having found the repeated elements, we index back into a with the positions found by find:
newa=a(F)
and output:
newa =
Columns 1 through 8
8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6
Columns 9 through 10
7 8