Here we discuss various types of loops including: for loops, while loops and nested loops with loop control statements. Creating loops for repetitive statements is a great way of shortening the final code. There are also specific loop control statements to control the execution of these loops.
FOR LOOP IN MATLAB CODE
MATLAB allows using various types of loops in the code to handle looping requirements including: for loops, while loops and nested loops. Instead of forcing termination, ‘continue’ skips any code in between and forces the next iteration of the loop to be executed. The continue statement works comparable to the break statement. The continue command is used for giving control to the next iteration of the loop. The control then passes to the statement after the end of the loop. In the case of nested loops, break exits only from the loop in which it is encountered. Consider the following loops: ch abc m 3 for c ch for k 1:m disp ( c num2str (k)) NUM2STR converts the number stored in k to a charachter, so it can be concataneted with the letter in c end end. Statements in the loop that are written after the break statement are skipped / not executed. Loops can be nested, to preform iterated task within another iterated task. The break command terminates execution of the for or while loop.
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These commands are similarly used in other programming languages too. MATLAB supports two specific loop control statements, the ‘break’ statement and the ‘continue’ statement.
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Most importantly, loop control statements are used to control the execution of the loop or to change execution from the normal sequence of commands. For example, in a while loop, the comparative value(s) are defined before the loop initializes, whereas in a for loop the value conditions are defined when initializing the loop, in the for the statement. Control statements also direct the syntax of the loop. Loop Control Statements in MatlabĪ control statement is a combination of conditions that govern the body of the loop to execute until the specified condition becomes False. Notice how the structure changes using the while loop. The comparative value for the condition is defined before beginning the while loop, and the comparison condition is set in the while loop initialization.įor example, let us take the same condition as the first for loop example. The syntax for the while loop is as below.Ī condition is true when the result is not null and contains all nonzero elements (either logical or real numeric). The while loop will execute the statements repeatedly as long as the specified condition is true. The input valArray can be of any MATLAB data type, including a cell array, string, or struct. The loop executes for n times, and n is the number of columns of valArray, set by numel(valArray, 1, :).
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Generates a column vector index from successive columns of array valArray on each iteration. This time we use the nested loop to format the output, and brake the line only when a new gap ( j) between the elements was introduced.Increases index by the value step on each iteration, or decreases when the step is negative.
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Here is another example: N = 12 įprintf('%d ',k) % FPRINTF prints the number k proceeding to the next the line Here we want to compute all the Fibonacci series, but to display only the nth element each time, so we get 3Īnother thing we can do is to use the first (outer) iterator within the inner loop. We can also use nested loops to combine between tasks to be done each time, and tasks to be done once in a several iterations: N = 10 Ī1 = 0 % the first element in Fibonacci seriesĪ2 = 1 % the secound element in Fibonacci seriesĪn = a1 + a2 % compute the next element in Fibonacci seriesĪ1 = a2 % save the previous element for the next iterationĪ2 = an % save ht new element for the next iteration We use 2 iterators to display all combinations of elements from abc and 1:m, which yields: a1 % so it can be concataneted with the letter in c Consider the following loops: ch = 'abc' ĭisp() % NUM2STR converts the number stored in k to a charachter, Loops can be nested, to preform iterated task within another iterated task. Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) Solvers.Fourier Transforms and Inverse Fourier Transforms.Notice: Weird same counter nested loops.