Problem with for loop

I want to obtain the middle points of each panel of a closed circle, for that I'm using the for loop. For example, the length of xc is 9 thus i = 8, but I get a matrix of dimension 1x9 for xc and yc, where the first element is equal to 0. Why is this happening and how can I obtain xc and yc of dimensions 1x8?

Thanks in advance.

for i = 2:1:length(xp);
  i
  xc(i) = (xp(i-1)+xp(i))/2;
  yc(i) = (yp(i-1)+yp(i))/2;
end

[Adam]

You start indexing from 2 but you can't have an array with nothing as the first element so that first element is created as 0.

You could just index as

xc( i - 1 )
yc( i - 1 )

in this case.

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

your loop produces eight elements but you already defined the first element for each variable as 0 , if you want to know what i mean type

xc(2) %which is the first element of loop but second element of the vector itself

xc(1) %which will be zero because it's predefined