Find a range of minimum values in a vector/array

Hello everyone! Briefly, I would like to ask if, in MATLAB, exists a function or something else to find a min or max range of values in an array. I mean, if I have [7 2 1 4 34 9 8 5]

And I want to find the a "range" of three numbers, which is the minimumin the array, MATLAB will give me as result

[2 1 4]

And so on.

Thanks in advice, A.M.

[José-Luis]

What do you mean by "a range"? The three smallest numbers, or the three contiguous smallest numbers?

[Alfredo Martini]

I mean the three contiguous smallest numbers. Forgive my english, is very poor.

Answer 1

[Andrei Bobrov]

I see two ways:

1)

out = sort(yourarray);
out = out(1:3);

2)

[ii,ii] = min(conv(yourarray,[1 1 1],'same'));
out = yourarray(ii-1:ii+1);

[Alfredo Martini]

Thank you so much.