Array Manipulation - Substituting matrices with vectors

Hi all,

I am having trouble with array subscripts in MATLAB.

Say we have a matrix "M=pascal(9)"

I want to "use array subscripting" to assign the 4th column of M to a new vector named V.

This is my code:

M = pascal(10);
syms v
M(:,3) = v

I have looked everywhere on the internet and can't find any help. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Oleg Komarov]

The LHS is always the assigned value in MATLAB, i.e. you cannot assign something that do not exist yet:

v = M(:,4)

Are you using syms for any specific reason?

[Dillon Hudson]

Not using syms for any reason other than I don't know what I'm doing :P

And I got it working, thanks a lot!