I want to be able to delete after ten 5s (or after some number of 5s in the array) the remaining values in the array without prior knowledge of the location (^).
Removing non unique elements from an array after n entries
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If I have an array:
[1 2 3 4 5 6 8 1 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 .... 5]
^
How can I remove the remaining 5s after say, here?
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Image Analyst
on 30 Jun 2014
out = yourVector(1:18);
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Image Analyst
on 30 Jun 2014
Regarding your additional comment:
m = [1 2 3 4 5 6 8 1 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5]
maxNumber = 7; % How many 5's do you want to keep.
indexes = find(m == 5)
m_out = m(1 : indexes(maxNumber))
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