access the multidimensional data using linear index

i need to calculate the distance by using the route for travelling saleman problem. im having my distance value in one matrix 'DIST' and route is in another matrix 'path'

it is an 5 cities tsp problem.

DIST = [ 0 2 5 8 3

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7 6 3 4 0] it is a 5 x 5 matrix

path =[ 1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 5 4

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5 4 3 2 1] it is a 120 x 5 matrix

for each row of path get the value from DIST [eg:1 2 in path it will get the value 2 from the DIST]

kindly hlep me code this.....

[madhan ravi]

Can you give an explicit example of your desired output?

[praveensilvi]

take 1st row of path [1 2 3 4 5] it means 1st row and 2nd column of th DIST value it takes (2) then 2nd row and 3rd column of the DIST likewise do it for all and store the values in one matrix

Answer 1

[KSSV]

Read about ind2sub and sub2ind.

[praveensilvi]

Thanks

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/441793-acces-data-for-find-tsp-distance-by-matrix-indexing

multidimensional indexing is not needed . Only 2d.