How can I find maximum before a certain element in my matrix

For example B=[5 8 5 2 6 9 10] min(B)=2

I am looking for maximum point before min(B), which is 8 (not maximum of B elements, which is 10)

Answer 1

[Chad Greene]

B=[5 8 5 2 6 9 10] ; 

[~,ind] = min(B); 

maxB4min = max(B(1:ind))
   =8

[Lily]

Thanks What does ~ do?

[James Tursa]

~ causes the output variable for that spot (1st spot in this example) to be ignored.

[~,ind] = min(B);

is essentially equivalent to

[dummy,ind] = min(B);
clear dummy

[Chad Greene]

If you wanted to know the minimum value in B and its index, you'd type

[minB,ind] = min(B)
minB =
   2
ind =
   4

which shows that the minimum value of B is 2, which is the fourth element in B. But we don't really need to know what the minimum value in B is, so the tilde tells Matlab to not bother writing the minimum value in B to a variable and gives us only the information we need:

[~,ind] = min(B)
ind =
     4

Answer 2

[Star Strider]

This works:

B = [5 8 5 2 6 9 10]; 
[~,ix] = min(B);
MaxBeforeMin = max(B(1:ix))

producing:

MaxBeforeMin =

       8

The code searches for the index of the first value of the minium and returns it as ‘ix’. It then takes the maximum up to that index, and reports it as ‘MaxBeforeMin’.

[Lily]

Thanks

Answer 3

[Jos (10584)]

Just for fun, as a one-liner:

B = [5 8 5 2 6 9 10];
MaxBeforeMin = max(B(1:find(B==min(B),1,'first')))