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SS on 28 Jun 2021
Edited: SS on 29 Jun 2021
Hello.
I have a structure array Data (1 x 500,000) with 10 fields f1, f2,.......f10. I want to delete all the columns i.e., Data(i) whose f10 > 100.
For example, if the below is the input:
Data(1).f1=[10,70,30 40,50,60], Data(1).f2=[100,20,50,60,70,140],......Data(1).f10=[-10,20,-50,42,-70,140] ;
Data(2).f1=[16,98,74,47,99], Data(2).f2=[101,54,69,20,11],.......Data(2).f10=[17,-54,69,-20,37];
Data(3).f1=...... , Data(3).f2=.....,........ Data(3).f10=...........;
Data(4).f1=.... , Data(4).f2=....., ....... Data(4).f10=............;
.
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Data(i).f1=...., Data(i).f2=.... and Data(i).f10=............;
In Data(1).f10 there is an entry 140 which is greater than 100 so, I want to delete the whole column Data(1).
I have tried below option but, it does not help.
for i=1:length(Data)
i
if (Data(i).f10 > 100)
Data(i)=[]
end
end
save('Data.mat')

Accepted Answer

Stephen23
Stephen23 on 28 Jun 2021
Assuming that the data in f10 is scalar numeric (you did not tell us this important information):
idx = [Data.f10]>10;
Data = Data(~idx)
save('Data.mat','Data')
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 29 Jun 2021
"This is a bit confusing."
It is not very confusing: in your original question you omitted to give very important information, such as the sizes of the structure fields. Now that you have edited your question, we can make some progress:
fun = @(s) any(s.f10(:)>10);
idx = arrayfun(fun,Data);
Data = Data(~idx);
SS
SS on 29 Jun 2021
Edited: SS on 29 Jun 2021
Thanks a lot.

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