Re: How to leave out selected elements from a vector?

[Francesco Potorti`]

>> Here is my question. In Mathematica, there exists a function called
>> Drop, which I often use to manipulate lists, e.g., Drop[ list, {m, n}
>> ] returns the argument list with the elements m through n omitted from
>> the list (the resultant list is shorter for (n - m + 1) elements).
>>
>> Does anything similar already exist in Octave? I know I can program it
>> myself, but I wouldn't want to reinvent the wheel. :)
>
>Use indexing. For instance [list(1:m-1), list(n+1:end)] could do what
>you want.

Assuming, as Michael did, that you want to remove elements from an
array, you can alternatively do
  list(m:n)=[];

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