Why is matlab busy?

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Robert Haxhari
Robert Haxhari on 28 Sep 2020
Commented: Steven Lord on 28 Sep 2020
I'm trying a basic script and working some things out for a base on a much more compliacted script, but for some reason MATLAB can't run the whole script and stays busy and never finishes? The script says there's nothing wrong with it so I just don't understand why it is forever busy.
Script:
r = ones(1,10);
i = 1;
while i <= length(r)
r(i) = 0;
i = 1+1;
end
it does the first two elements then stops.

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Steven Lord
Steven Lord on 28 Sep 2020
i = 1+1;
Did you mean to add 1 to i rather than adding 1 to 1? The length of r is greater than 2, so the condition of your while statement is always satisfied. You have an infinite loop.
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Robert Haxhari
Robert Haxhari on 28 Sep 2020
Oh my god I'm an idiot, thank you so much this was driving me crazy!!
Steven Lord
Steven Lord on 28 Sep 2020
As a general suggestion, when you encounter a situation like this in the future I recommend using the debugging tools built into MATLAB to step through the code (section by section or line by line) to determine specifically where the problem is introduced.

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