"Index exceeds the number of array elements (1)."

load('air.txt')
Air.temp = air(:,1);
Air.press = air(:,2);
Air_R = 0.287;

load('argon.txt')
Argon.press = argon(:,2);
Argon.temp = argon(:,1);
Argon_R = 0.208;

load('helium.txt')
Helium.press = helium(:,2);
Helium.temp = helium(:,1);
Helium_R = 2.080;

for k = 1:length(air)
    Air(k).vol = (Air_R*Air(k).temp)./Air(k).press;
end
for k = 1:length(argon)
    Argon(k).vol = (Argon_R*Argon(k).temp)./Argon(k).press;
end
for k = 1:length(helium)
    Helium(k).vol = (Helium_R*Helium(k).temp)./Helium(k).press;
end 

Using the ideal gas law to caululate the velocity of argon, helium and air, but I keep getting and Error.

"Index exceeds the number of array elements (1)."

When I run the code through I only get the volume of air butnot the volumes of argon or helium? I tried to also create a auser defined function, but I wasn't able to figure out what was wrong with that either.

[per isakson]

See ERROR [...]: Index in position 2 exceeds array bounds

[Toder]

The error indicates that an index is asking for an element of an array where the element doesn't exist. For example, for x=[11,12,13], running x(2) will return 12, but x(4) will throw a similar error as yours because there is no fourth element in x. This is happening to one of your variables, but it's hard to tell which because we don't know the contents of air.txt, argon.txt, and helium.txt. However the error tells us that the array you're referring to has only one element.

What line throws the error (the error prints with a line number)? Can you give a description of the text files, or the files themselves if they aren't too large?

[Jessica Larry]

It says there's an error in line 31. Iv'e attached the 3 text files, and in the code you can see that i set each colum to a different field within a structure. Could it possibly be becuase Air is a 1X1 strcut?

Answer 1

[Toder]

The way you define your struct in the first few lines results in Air being a 1x1 struct with two fields (temp and press), each of which is 38x1. So calling Air(2).temp throws an error because Air is only 1x1. To use the indices correctly, your first for loop should read

for k = 1:length(air)
    Air.vol(k) = (Air_R*Air.temp(k))./Air.press(k);
end

[Jessica Larry]

Yes, that was the issue! Thanks!

[Toder]

Glad I could help.