index an array with arrays

I have two index arrays i1 and i2 and a data array data.

I want to set the areas of data in the following way:

data([i1(1):i2(1), i1(2):i2(2)]) = ... % and so on

Is there a way to do that fast without loops? It can be achieved via

for i=1:length(d1)
    data(d1(i):d2(i)) = 1.0;
end

[Kevin Phung]

can you be more clear in what you are trying to do? maybe give an example

[James Tursa]

How many dimensions does "data" have? Could that vary?

[Christian Hufnagel]

I edited with an example. I want to build slices from d1 and d2

"data" is one-dimensional

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

I'm still not exactly sure what you are trying to do, but If data is 1D and you want to set all values between the indexes to some common value as your example seems to indicate, then you could simply build an index vector to use. E.g.,

x = cell2mat(arrayfun( @(i1,i2)i1:i2, i1, i2, 'uni', false ));
data(x) = 1.0;