Doug's MATLAB Video TutorialsMarch 9th, 2011How to store a series of vectors from a for loop.A very common question among new MATLAB users is how to store the results of a calculation done in a for loop. I covered how to do this when the result is a scalar However, I did not cover how to do this if you are creating a vector each time through the loop.I often see people try to store the results in a series of vectors with names like alpha1, alpha2, alpha3… This is not a good idea, it is hard to manipulate and refer to these variables. Better is to store each resultant vector as a row in a larger matrix.
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Hi Dough, another nice video tutorial.
The mat array should be preallocated first don’t you agree?
@Paulo
It depends. The point of my videos is to illustrate a concept clearly an concisely. Pre-allocation would be marginally better in a situation like this, but because the matrices are small it would be only a small improvement.
In real code, I would totally pre-allocate if this was a matrix of any real size, but for small ones I might or might not do it. I prefer clarity and brevity most of the time. If speed becomes an issue later, I can easily add that optimization.
Thanks for asking,
Doug