how can i remove this error in matlab?

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rabia
rabia on 14 Jul 2012
for i=1:n-1
c(i,:)=blanks(n*n);
end

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Sargondjani
Sargondjani on 14 Jul 2012
ermm, what error? and what do you actually want the line to achieve? i mean, the code wants to assign a matrix with blanks to column vector...
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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 14 Jul 2012
Edited: Image Analyst on 14 Jul 2012
Set a breakpoint on that line. In the command window, what does this say
whos c
whos n
Are you absolutely sure c has at least n-1 rows and n*n columns, and are you absolutely sure n is not an array? How did you get c and n in the first place, before you got to the for loop?
rabia
rabia on 15 Jul 2012
it gives the ans 1x1 for all c,n and i !

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Star Strider
Star Strider on 14 Jul 2012
This works fine for me:
n=4;
for k1 = 1:n-1
c(k1,:) = blanks(n*n);
end
Variable ‘c’ is listed as a [3 x 16] character array.
The index ‘i’ may be the problem. Please don't use ‘i’ or ‘j’ for indexing, since MATLAB uses them for its imaginary operators.
If that's not the problem, did you use ‘c’ somewhere earlier in you code as a constant or as vector or as a smaller matrix?
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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 15 Jul 2012
He said the code worked separately but not in his program. So obviously his program is different than the simplified snippet he shared with us. rabia really needs to learn how to debug using the built in debugger rather than the Answers forum. Debugging with the debugger is so much faster and more efficient than debugging via forum messages. rabia, is there some reason why you're not using the debugger to solve your problem?
Star Strider
Star Strider on 15 Jul 2012
My impression was that he followed your previous suggestion, set a breakpoint, and found that ‘c’ ‘n’, and ‘i’ were all [1x1]. That may have been the first loop iteration. He might have discovered his error (still undetermined) if he had stepped through his loop using the debugger and examined ‘c’ at each iteration. He didn't, so I'm offering an alternative approach such as I used in pre-debugger MATLAB.
My latest suggestion is to provide him with a strategy to see what ‘c’ is doing, since that seems to be the problem, and possibly discover where it's throwing the error. It's easier than explaining the debugger functions.

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