Finding length of a struct, excluding NaN values

>> F = @(s)all(structfun(@(a)isscalar(a)&&isnan(a),s)); % or ANY
>> X = arrayfun(F,AllData.Passive)
X =
  0  0  0  0  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  0  0  0  0
>> nnz(~X)
ans = 8

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Manny Kins 2019-7-8

Hi Stephen, thanks for your response! I did think of this, as I can just create a new struct without the NaN values and then take the length of that, however (I did not explain myself properly in the question) I am trying to optimise a code I made for particle tracking and doing this takes a very long time when the struct is quite large.

The issue stems from me trying to preallocate my struct with a bunch of NaN values because I heard preallocation helps speed up loops as the struct does not need to be rebuilt every time (from what I know).

My code looks through the struct and finds the nearest neighbour for a particle in the next frame. So if I preallocate my struct with a large amount of NaNs then the code will loop through all of them when I make the i = 1:length(struct) loop. Hence I wanted the code to only run through values that were not NaN.

In fact in this case there are only trailing NaN values so the data comes first, then followed by the NaN values from preallocation. I have edited my question to reflect this properly

Manny Kins 2019-7-8

Hi Stephen, yes sorry your answer does indeed give the length of a struct without including any NaN values. I was just mentioning that for me when the struct becomes quite large (lengths of around 1000000) the code:

X = arrayfun(F,AllData.Passive)

becomes very slow. I have tried a workaround

if isnan(AllData.Passive(j).PX)

break

end

which just breaks out of the loop when it comes across a NaN value.

This seems to work much faster.

Your suggestion is however much more universal in that it can be applied to structs where there are NaN values scattered around the struct and do not only form below the useful data.

Thanks

Stephen23 2019-7-8

编辑：Stephen23 2019-7-8

@Manny Kins: a well-designed loop will most likely be faster than arrayfun.

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