How to track numbers in the MATLAB excel sheet?

I asked a function to run which produces a lot of numbers which I then can see in the MATLAB excel sheet. Is there a way to find out how many times a certain number showed up in the excel sheet or have it highlight every one of a certain number?

thanks.

Answer 1

[Justin]

I believe the correct name for what you are referring to as the Matlab excel sheet is called the Variable Editor.

A simple answer to your question would be to take a sum of all values in the array equal to the number you are interested in.

For example:

 % define your array
 x = [1 2 3 4 3 4 3 2 1 3];
 % x == 3 will make a logical array where there will be a one for every value that is equal to 3
 isValue = x == 3;
 % sum will add up all the values in the logical array giving you a count of how many number threes there are
 count = sum(isValue(:))

I would definitely recommend going to this site http://www.mathworks.com/academia/student_center/tutorials/launchpad.html and doing the Getting Started with MATLAB tutorial. Also take a look at http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/examples.html.