Find values in a column that fall between two numbers

I have a column vector with ~100,000 values in it ranging from 0 to 20. I need to make a variable that outputs only values between 4 and 40. How do I do this?

For instance, I can find values greater than, but not between:

frqRng=freq(find(freq(:,1) > 4), :)

Answer 1

[dpb]

MATLAB requires compound logical tests be written separately...and you don't need find, just the logical result vector..

vLo=4; vHi=40;                          % use variables, don't bury magic numbers inside code 
isIn=(freq(:,1)>vLo)&(freq(:,1)<vHi);   % compute the logical index
frqRng=freq(isIn, :);                   % save the results

This is the type of thing that a helper utility function is very handy to have around -- I use iswithin a bunch to move the compound test out of main code and to return the logical vector that can then be used as functional result. Can make many constructs much more legible to read...

function flg=iswithin(x,lo,hi)
% returns T for values within range of input
% SYNTAX:
%  [log] = iswithin(x,lo,hi)
%      returns T for x between lo and hi values, inclusive

  flg= (x>=lo) & (x<=hi);
end

My particular version is inclusive; I've had options for one- or two-sided upper and lower, but have settled that the base function is inclusive as that fits my needs almost always; reserving the other more complex cases to another function.