Merging vectors into one

Hi, I am new to Matlab and I'm trying to use it as a tool to create a model.

I have two vectors, both of them are <1x6001> double,

x=(x1,x2,x3...)

y=(y1,y2,y3...)

but what I need is to merge them as one in the following way:

z=(x1,y1;x2,y2;x3,y3...,xn;yn) - comma separates the elements, and semicolon separates the pairs.

so that I can use it as input data.

Is there a way to do it?

Answer 1

[Daniel M]

Simple:

x = 1:10;
y = x + 10; % for example
% x and y are both [1x10] row vectors as you mentioned
z = [x(:), y(:)]; 
% z is a [10x2] matrix of
% [x1, y1;
%  x2, y2;
%  .....
%  xn, yn]

And if you want it back in 'row' form, just transpose z using an apostrophe '

[Daniel M]

I definitely get a 10x2 doing the way I wrote it. I get a 1x20 using z = [x,y]. Clearly, your x and y are [10x1].

[Stephan]

Forget it - my fault, comment deleted ;-)

[Lucas Stadnik]

Thanks for the help, but how can I save them using the comma and semicolon?

z=(x1,y1;x2,y2;x3,y3;...;xn,yn)

The data is too large so I can't really do it manually.

Thank yo again for your help and time.

[Daniel M]

You don't need to.

xcol = x(:);
% this lists all the elements of x in one big column
% same thing as doing [x1;x2;...;xn]
ycol = y(:); % same thing

z = [x(:), y(:)]; 
% this concatenates x and y side by side
% same thing as [x1, y1 ; x2, y2; ...; xn, yn]

[Lucas Stadnik]

Thanks, I understand it now.

Can I use the function "save" to save "z" as a .txt?

Actually I just need to copy z and paste it into another program.

[Daniel M]

You can use writematrix to save it as a txt (among other similar things). save only save mat files.

[Lucas Stadnik]

Thank you for your help and time.

I appreciate it.