Re: help on assignment in struct arrays

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Eric Chassande-Mottin
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> hi,
>
> I'd like to replace all occurence of "~" by NaN in a struct array.
> here is an example:
>
>> a(1).a=1; a(1).b=2; a(2).a="~"; a(2).b=3; a(3).a="~"; a(3).b=4;
>> idx=find([a.a]=="~")
> idx =
>
>   2   3
>
> I'm able to find the "~" but don't know how to do the assignment:
>> [a(idx).a]=nan
> error: some elements undefined in return list

Please read the section in the manual about comma separated lists,
then you'll probably understand what's wrong and why the error
message. The correct way is
[a(idx).a] = deal (nan);


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