Re: Stupid New User Question

[Paul Kienzle]

On Jul 11, 2006, at 5:37 PM, Pat Ferguson wrote:

> I have written a simple function:
>  
> function  retval = killnegatives(x)
>      retval = x;
>      if(retval<0) retval = 0;
>      endif;
> endfunction
>  
> and placed it in a file called “killnegatives.m”.

The function name is longer than the expression itself, but here you go:

        function x = killnegatives(x), x(x<0) = 0; end

There is also the clip function on octave-forge:

    clip(x,[0,inf])

- Paul
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