Hi Dacoda,
The strategy suggested by you should work. You can create a cell array of kids and numeric array for values that represent behavior. Then you can use logical indexing to directly index into an array based on a condition. Here is a sample code for the same:
kids = {'Alice', 'Bob', 'Charlie', 'David', 'Eve'};
values = [1, 2, 1, 3, 2];
group1 = kids(values == 1);
group2 = kids(values == 2);
group3 = kids(values == 3);
disp(group1);
disp(group2);
disp(group3);
If statements can also be used as you had mentioned. We can do the following:
group1 = {};
group2 = {};
group3 = {};
for i = 1:length(kids)
if values(i) == 1
group1{end+1} = kids{i};
elseif values(i) == 2
group2{end+1} = kids{i};
elseif values(i) == 3
group3{end+1} = kids{i};
end
end
Hope this helps!
