How to use negative index ranges in for loop?

I heard about matlab doesn't support negative indexes in the loops. Is there any other way to use negative index in the for loop?.

I can use for loop as "for n=1:10" Is it possible to use for loop as "for n=-5:5" ?

[Ron Bremner]

There is another option, which comes close to using negative indices. In one instruction, it maps negative indices to unused positive indices. As an example:

a=[1:11] % Initialize a as a vector with 11 elements

for i = [-5:-1 1:5]

b=a(mod(i,11)) % This copies the ith element of a into b, if i is positive,

% and copies the 11 - ith element of a into b if i is negative

[i a] % This prints out i (the index) and the contents of a

end

Notes:

1. i cannot be 0, as 0 is mapped to index value 0, which does not work in Matlab. There are workarounds for this, but they add more complexity than my problems are worth
2. The array should be initialize to be as large as the largest positive index, - the smallest negative (most negative) index.

[Image Analyst]

Ron, can you please make this comment into an official Answer by posting it down below in the official Answers section rather than up here in comments, which is used to ask the poster to clarify his question. You can also get credit in terms of "reputation points" if he accepts your answer or someone votes for your answer.

Answer 1

[drummer]

It's not possible.

if you want to run a for loop like you showed in your example ranging from -5 to + 5

By doing like this, you're gonna get an error.

for i = -5:5
    array(i) = i
end

Because you can never get array(-5), array(-4) and so on in order to show the element location. Because indexes must be positive integers.

Fortunately, you can adjust your indexes to mark up the element location as previously reported by other fellows:

for i = -5 : 5
    array(i + 6) = i
end

That way, notice that for i = -5, your array index will be array(-5+6). Which is array(1) and so on...

Answer 2

[KSSV]

Yes you can use for loop like that...

for i = -5:1:5
    i
end

But remember that, you cannot use this i with -ve values as a index to call element of array/ matrix.

[Tamil selvan]

Thanks for the info. Another question came to mine mind! Please see the attached file.

Assume its need to use the i variable as -5 to 4 and have to access the corresponding index of input buffer. But in matlab we can't handle negative indexes in matrix or arrays. However, I would like to use inbuilt ifft block. Please let me know is their any way.

[KSSV]

See the below example:

i = -5:4 ;
j = 1:10 ;
input = rand(1,10) ;
[i ; j ;input]

i corresponds to what shown in your attahced formula, j is the respective indices in MATLAB. You have to manipulate them depending on how many elements are present in your input. In your case i is from -5 to 4, so there are 10 elements in input, which would be from 1 to 10 i.e j in matlab.

Answer 3

[Image Analyst]

You can do things like this:

for n=-5:5
    yourArray(n+6) = rand;
end

or

index = 1
for n = -123.45 : 0.345 : 789.1448
    yourArray(index) = rand
    index = index + 1;
end

You just have to know that the starting index (1) of your array was when your n was the starting n value, the element #2 was the next n value, and so on.

[Tamil selvan]

Yes I too worked on it. The problem is while using inbuilt ifft Matlab function. In ifft matlab function, we can pass only the array and fft length. However, I need to use the i values from -5 to 5. In default matlab take i value as 0 to 10.

Please let me know how to use inbuilt fft matlab function for this scenario.

[KSSV]

You need not to worry about it's indices....input the array you want into the function.