Getting Error message 'Array indices must be positive integers or logical values.'
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James Harrison
on 24 Jan 2021
So, I have a question to do with leap Years. I have done all the code, just stuck with this error message. Here is my code
function [outputArg1] = GetLeapYears(startYear,endYear)
%UNTITLED12 Summary of this function goes here
% Detailed explanation goes here
m = (endYear - startYear)+1;
v = (startYear:1:endYear);
b = zeros(1,m);
for c = 1:m
b(c) = IsLeapYear(v(c));
end
outputArg1 = v(b);
and the IsLeapYear code is
function T = IsLeapYear(Year)
T = not (mod(Year, 4)) & (mod(Year, 100)) | not (mod(Year, 400));
end
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Stephen23
on 24 Jan 2021
Edited: Stephen23
on 24 Jan 2021
"im just wondering why it works better?"
When you preallocate the array b as numeric and then later use indexing to allocate logical values to it, the array does not change class when you allocate (via indexing) those logical values, instead those logical values are coerced into numeric values. And then because a numeric array is not a logical array you cannot use it for logical indexing (only logical arrays can be used for logical indexing). Thus Kalyan Acharjya requires the extra comparison operator on the (coerced) numeric values to see if they are equivalent to true (coerced to numeric one) which creates a logical array which is basically a copy of that numeric array... so you just end up using twice as much memory with more operations.
Note that my simpler and more efficient answer did not involve any coercion or superfluous comparison or data duplication.
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