How do I find non-consecutive zero entries?

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I am trying to obtain logical output by finding the entries which are 0 but with a condition that its previous entry must not be zero. I'd like to avoid using FOR loop since the size of the input matrix is quite large. But I just couldn't figure out how to avoid using FOR loop.
Here is the example of my input and desired output.
input = [6 6 5 3 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 0 4 0;
3 5 1 4 2 0 0 0 9 0 8 7 0 0 2]
output = [0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1;
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0]
Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

Accepted Answer

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 11 Mar 2011
What if the first entry is 0? There is no entry before that, so is the non-existent entry non-zero or not?
[false(size(input,1),1) ~input(:,2:end) & input(:,1:end-1)]

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Paulo Silva
Paulo Silva on 11 Mar 2011
Here's my messy code, Walter's solution is better and I also had the first value problem, I ignored the first value.
input=[input(1,:) input(2,:)]; %make a vector from the array
a=diff(input==0); %find the zeros
b=[0 a==1]; %insert the first value 0 and the result
output=[b(1:15);b(16:30)] %make the output an array

Peerapat V.Chareon
Peerapat V.Chareon on 11 Mar 2011
Thanks very much Walter and Paulo, the first value is always non-zero. Your codes work very well.

Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski on 11 Mar 2011
And another:
%Don't overwrite input because it's a built-in function!
%renamed input to x
output = (x==0&diff([zeros(size(x,1),1) x],[],2))

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