How do I access and modify only the non diagonal entries in a matrix?
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hello.. i hv a question. what is the command to call the non diagonal entries of a matrix? tq very much...
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Rick Rosson
on 28 Jul 2011
Please try the following:
M = 8;
N = 5;
X = randn(M,N);
idx = eye(M,N);
Y = (1-idx).*X;
Z = X(~idx);
HTH.
Best, Rick
Responding to your comment:
To multiply the non-diagonal elements by 2, please try:
A = [2 3 5;3 6 8;5 8 4];
idx = eye(size(A));
idx = idx + 2*(1-idx);
Y = idx.*A;
HTH.
Best, Rick
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Nathan Greco
on 28 Jul 2011
If tmp is your matrix, try:
tmp-diag(diag(tmp)) %works only with square matrices
OR
triu(tmp,1)+tril(tmp,-1)
Both of these set the diagonal entries to zero, essentially ignoring them. If this isn't what you want, please clarify.
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dor eivensitz
on 2 Nov 2017
i want to keep both diagonal in matrix size i don't know, defined by n, and all other elements to multiply by them self plus 1. tnx
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James Tursa
on 2 Nov 2017
Please open up a new question for this, and provide a short example in that new question.
James Tursa
on 2 Nov 2017
Another way for a square matrix:
M = your matrix
x = ~logical(eye(size(M)));
M(x) = 2*M(x); % <-- or whatever function you want on the rhs using M(x)
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