How to access element of a matrix using vector function

lets say if A is a matrix 3x10 and A(:,i) will return a column vector of 3x1.

How I could use A(:,i) to get the specific element for eg 1st element (1x1) or 2nd element (2x1) of that column matrix extracted ?

Any leads would be much appreciated.

A=rand(3,10)

A = 3×10

0.3244 0.1814 0.6406 0.9759 0.4976 0.8527 0.2886 0.1458 0.1342 0.7906 0.5563 0.8865 0.4226 0.9473 0.7795 0.7904 0.8093 0.4554 0.5173 0.2380 0.7484 0.8836 0.5552 0.3947 0.2538 0.8797 0.2439 0.1801 0.1451 0.0432

A(:,3)

ans = 3×1

0.6406 0.4226 0.5552

A(:,3)(1)

Invalid array indexing.

Answer 1

[Dyuman Joshi]

Use indexing -

A=rand(3,10)

A = 3×10

0.4931 0.4688 0.5949 0.5627 0.8420 0.4994 0.3968 0.3644 0.0634 0.5203 0.5138 0.8816 0.1320 0.4975 0.5256 0.0801 0.6158 0.1977 0.2617 0.4064 0.1271 0.6517 0.2315 0.4487 0.5137 0.6693 0.3537 0.6661 0.8979 0.0736

A(:,3)

ans = 3×1

0.5949 0.1320 0.2315

%First element
A(1,3)

ans = 0.5949

%First two elements
A(1:2,3)

ans = 2×1

0.5949 0.1320

%Last two elements
A(2:3,3)

ans = 2×1

0.1320 0.2315

[Shubhankar]

Hi Dyuman Joshi,

Thanks so much for your quick response, your solution worked for me.

Regards,

Shubhankar

[Dyuman Joshi]

Glad to have helped!

Answer 2

[Aman]

Hi Shubhankar,

You can use of the following two approaches:

1. Store the output in a new variable.

A=rand(3,10)
i = 2;
columnVector = A(:, i);

% Access specific elements of the column vector
element1 = columnVector(1);  % 1st element
element2 = columnVector(2);  % 2nd element

2. Access the element directly.

A=rand(3,10)

% Access specific elements of the i-th column vector
i = 2;
element1 = A(1, i);  % 1st element
element2 = A(2, i);  % 2nd element

Hope this helps!

[Shubhankar]

Hi Aman,

Thanks so much for your quick response, your solution worked for me.

Regards,

Shubhankar

Answer 3

[Shubham Dhanda]

Hi,

I understand that you are not able extract a specific element of column Vector using the given indexing. An easy approach would be intially extracting a column vector and then use indexing on the column vector to extract the specific element.

A = rand(3, 10);
columnVector = A(:, 3);
element = columnVector(1);
disp(element);

Note : There can be a lot of ways to access the element

[Shubhankar]

Hi Shubham Dhanda,

Thanks so much for your quick response, your solution worked might work for me but i dont want to save the element in new variable but approach is working fine for me.

Hvave a great day ahead.

Regards,

Shubhankar

Answer 4

[Aakash]

Hi,

1.So one way is you can access the specific row in a column vector through a seperate line like;

column_vector = A(:, 3); % Extract the column vector at index 3

element_1 = column_vector(1); % Access the first element of the column vector

element_2 = column_vector(2); % Access the second element of the column vector

or

2. You can access element at row x, column y through A(x,y)

[Shubhankar]

Hi Aakash,

Thanks so much for your quick response, your solution worked might work for me but i dont want to save the element in new variable but approach is working fine for me.

Have a great day ahead.

Regards,

Shubhankar