Speadsheet with all the answers from my loop

I created a for loop that was meant to show me how many times a number showed up in an array like so:

for i=1:n
    length(find(yy(1:numel(yy),1)==i))
end

It worked but it did so in a way that gave me eac number's answer one at a time in my command window like so:

ans=
        7
ans=
        2

and so on.

How do I code it so that I create a speadsheet that tells me the answer from 1 all the way to the last number?

[Geoff Hayes]

Jordan - what are you trying to write to file? A list of the integers and the number of times they appear in the array?

[Jordan Grapel]

That's pretty much what the loop does. The numbers are already in numeric order in a different spreadsheet. This loop tells me how many times each number appears. For example, if 1 appears once, 2 appears 4 times, and 3 appears 18 times the loop produces:

ans=

1

ans=

4

ans=

18

and so on in the command window all the way until the last number (which for this file is 518). My problem is that I am only getting this long run of answers in my command window. I need to make it so that all of these answers (number of times the number appears in the array) appears on a spreadsheet with them all appearing in column one, and with the answer for 1 appearing in row one and so on.

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

output = zeros(n,1);
for i=1:n
    output(i) = length(find(yy(1:numel(yy),1)==i));
end
output

That will still write the full list to the screen, but without the intervening "ans" text.

There are then a number of ways to write to file. Perhaps check out this documentation as a starting point.

[Jordan Grapel]

that worked. thank you