Is it possible to change the running index in a for cycle?

for i = 1:10
if i == 3
i = i+2;
end
end

Answer 1

[Tejas Jayashankar]

Hi,

Check out the following answer for a similar question:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/89840-change-for-loop-iteration-inside-the-loop

Let me know if this helps.

Answer 2

[Jan]

This does not work in a for loop, but it works with while:

i = 1;
while i <= 10
  disp(i)
  if i == 3
    i = i+2;
  end
  i = i + 1;
end

Alternatively:

for i = [1:3, 5:10]
  disp(i)
end