Insert values of a vector between two elements of another vector and at the end of it.

I have a vector a=[0.2 2 3 4] and I have another vector that is b=[0.1 1 2 5] so how can I insert each element of b between elements of a and the last element of b after the last element of a?

So in effect, take 0.1 from b, insert it between 0.2 and 2 in a, take 1 from b and insert it between 2 and 3 in a, take 2 from b and insert it between 3 and 4 and take 5 from b and insert it after 4

so after this process, a new matrix say c will be c=[0.2 0.1 2 1 3 2 4 5]

The logic I would assume would be used is take the last element of b and remove it, the follow a process to insert the remaining values of b into a then in that new vector, insert the last value at the end. Idk, any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

[Honglei Chen]

Is it just

c = [a;b]
c = c(:)

Did I understand it correctly?

HTH

[Vishan Gupta]

No as this would just result in the two vectors being different rows. i.e c=[0.2 2 3 4;0.1 1 2 5] I don't want that, I want to have all of them in the same row but one after the other to get c=[0.2 0.1 2 1 3 2 4 5], which is not the same as what you suggested.

[Honglei Chen]

Sorry I missed a line, I mean

c = [a;b]
c = c(:).'

HTH

[Vishan Gupta]

Wow it worked!! thanks so much, was trying to figure this out for ages, could you please explain how this works, the logic behind it? Thanks alot!

[Honglei Chen]

You are just trying to interleaving the two vectors. When MATLAB converts a matrix to vector using colon, it connects columns together, that's why you can use this trick to interleaving the two.

HTH