How can I check whether the strictly positive elements of each row of a matrix are equal?
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How can I check whether the strictly positive elements of each row of a matrix are equal? E.g. if
A=[0 1 1 2; 0 1 0 1; 3 0 3 0]
I want
B=[0;1;1]
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  Geoff Hayes
      
      
 on 29 Apr 2014
				Cris - is this a homework question? Please review http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/8626-how-do-i-get-help-on-homework-questions-on-matlab-answers.
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  per isakson
      
      
 on 29 Apr 2014
        
      Edited: per isakson
      
      
 on 29 Apr 2014
  
          arrayfun( @(jj) (length(unique(A(jj,(A(jj,:)>0)))) == 1),(1:size(A,1)) )
returns
    ans =
         0     1     1
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  Sara
      
 on 29 Apr 2014
        B = zeros(size(A,1),1);
for i = 1:size(A,1)
   temp = A(i,:);
   temp = temp(temp>0);
   temp = unique(temp);
   if(length(temp) == 1)
      B(i) = 1;
   end
end
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  dpb
      
      
 on 29 Apr 2014
        The "deadahead" solution...
isPos=false(size(A,1),1);
for i=1:size(A,1)
  isPos(i)=all(diff(A(i,A(i,:)>0))==0);
end
Vectorize at your leisure... :)
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  dpb
      
      
 on 29 Apr 2014
				Yes, w/ arrayfun. That was left as "exercise for the student" :)
As illustrated by Per; same idea with anonymous function. As also showed, any of a number of ways to check on the consistency of the values in a row is doable.
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