Cannot perform null assignment from variable
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The following code "works" (deletes the 3rd element of A, or the third page, if the first two dimensions are not 1 & 1):
A = nan(1,1,3);
A(3) = [];
This modification breaks the functionality and throws an error: "Unable to perform assignment because the size of the left side is 1-by-1 and the size of the right side is 0-by-0."
A = nan(1,1,3);
empty_scalar = [];
A(3) = empty_scalar;
I don't understand what's going on here -- why can't I do the same null assignment from a variable? Is "= []" special syntax?
I'd like to be able to automate the process of either assigning or deleting elements/columns/pages of some arbitrarily-sized array. How can I do this, given the above behavior?
Thanks.
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Dyuman Joshi
on 13 Nov 2023
The first one is deletion.
The second one is assignment (as the error states as well).
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Matt J
on 13 Nov 2023
Another workaround is to call subsasgn direclty,
A = nan(1,3);
empty_scalar = 4;
A=subsasgn(A, struct('type','()','subs',{{3}}) , empty_scalar)
empty_scalar = [];
A=subsasgn(A, struct('type','()','subs',{{3}}) , empty_scalar)
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