Functional form of the colon (:) operator?

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Knut
Knut 2012-9-18
评论： Royi Avital 2019-1-15
This is a post about "how to write neat, efficient, readable MATLAB code". I get the job done by doing work-arounds, but I would rather not do those.
Assume that a, b are two vectors of unknown orientation, and we want to compute something similar to the dot-product.
It might look something like this:
function y = myfunc(a,b)
//make sure that vectors are oriented the same way
y = a(:) .* b(:);
But what if I need to calculate y for elements 2:N? We might do something like this, but I think it clutters the code:
function y = myfunc(a,b)
a = a(2:end)
b = b(2:end)
y = a(:) .* b(:);
I am wishing for a functional form of the colon operator that might look something like this:
function y = myfunc(a,b)
y = colon(a(2:end)) .* colon(b(2:end));

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José-Luis
José-Luis 2012-9-18
function y = myfunc(a,b)
//make sure that vectors are oriented the same way
y = reshape(a(2:end),[],1) .* reshape(b(2:end),[],1);

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Daniel Shub
Daniel Shub 2012-9-18
I thought that squeeze would do what you want, but apparently it doesn't "work" on row vectors. What would be nice is if squeeze had a row flag. Barring that, you can easily create your own colon function. From
type squeeze
it should be obvious what you need to change.
Royi Avital
Royi Avital 2017-10-10
I really wish MATLAB would add function to vectorize arrays into column vector as the colon operator does.
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Jan
Jan 2017-10-10
编辑：Jan 2017-10-10
@Royi: Do you have an example where the mentioned methods are not applicable or "ugly"?
Royi Avital
Royi Avital 2019-1-15
@Jan, I find something like vec(A) to be much more elegant.

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Jan
Jan 2017-10-10
What's wrong with:
y = x(:)
or:
reshape(x, [], 1)
There is a functional form of the x(:) operator:
subsref(x, struct('type', '()', 'subs', {{':'}}))
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2018-10-17
Sometimes it is easiest to define an auxillary function, such as
column = @(M) M(:);
after which you can
column(a(2:end)) .* column(b(2:end))

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