Indexing how many times is an element repeated in a matrix in another array

Question

Ningct12 2019-11-19

评论： Ningct12 2019-11-20

Sorry if the wording in the title doesn't make sense. I'm still a noob to MATLAB.

Let's say I have an experiment order of A = [1 2 1 2 3 2 3 3 1].

I would like to make another array counting how many times each task is repeated in A.

The expected outcome would be B = [1 1 2 2 1 3 2 3 3].

Particularly, when 1 appeared the 2nd time in A(3), B(3) = 2. When 1 appeared the 3nd time in A(9), B(9)= 3. Same applies for the other numbers.

How can I achieve this? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you!

Answer 1

Erivelton Gualter 2019-11-19

The following piece of code solve your problem:

arr = unique(A);
for i=1:length(arr)
    n = arr(i);
    B(A==n) = 1:length(find(A==n));
end
B

Next time, try to show some attempt code ;)

Ningct12 2019-11-20

I was orginally planning to count them in a for loop using counter+1, but your method is much better! Thank you for your help! :)