I'm not sure if this is exactly where you're going with your example, but let's say you have a vector and you want to print a message for each element that falls within a range. You could do that with a loop like you show.
roomtemperature = [38 41 16 26 34 21 32 12 27 36]; % average temp per day
comfortablerange = [22 27];
for k = 1:numel(roomtemperature)
iscomfortable = roomtemperature(k)>=comfortablerange(1) ...
&& roomtemperature(k)<=comfortablerange(2);
if iscomfortable
fprintf('The room temp was a comfortable %d°C on day %d\n',roomtemperature(k),k)
end
end
If you want to do something other than print messages, it may be better to extract this information as logical vectors and use that to perform some desired tasks by indexing. This obviates the loop.
iscomfortable = roomtemperature>=comfortablerange(1) ...
& roomtemperature<=comfortablerange(2);
avgcomfortabletemps = mean(roomtemperature(iscomfortable))
minuncomfortabletemps = min(roomtemperature(~iscomfortable))
maxuncomfortabletemps = max(roomtemperature(~iscomfortable))
