How To: Multi-level subindexing

I'm tryig to achieve a proper 1-line ndex/sub-indexing operation, but have thus far failed to get the syntax right
ArrayA = sparse(100,100000);
ArrayA(randi(100*100000,[7000 1])) = (82-36).*rand(7000,1)+36;
[ArrayAFull(:,1),ArrayAFull(:,2),ArrayAFull(:,3)] = find(ArrayA);
ArrayB = sparse(100,100000);
ArrayB(randi(100*100000,[7000 1])) = (90-30).*rand(7000,1)+30;
[ArrayBFull(:,1),ArrayBFull(:,2),ArrayBFull(:,3)] = find(ArrayB);
[~,IdxA,IdxB] = intersect(ArrayAFull(:,[1,2]),ArrayBFull(:,[1,2]),'stable','rows');
t1 = ArrayBFull(ArrayBFull(IdxB,1)==1,:); %This is where things go sour
%The next two lines get me the actually desired matrix
t2 = ArrayBFull(IdxB,:);
t2 = t2(t2(:,1)==1,:);
isequal(t1,t2); %false
Is it possible to compress the t2 lines into a single line, or no?

 Accepted Answer

Yes, it is, but it is fairly ugly to do so. You can call upon subsref() manually, possibly having used substruct() to help build the appropriate structure.
It is usually a lot easier to use a helper function. For example,
SelectRowWhere = @(expression, where) expression(expression(:,1)==where,:);
t2 = SelectRowWhere(ArrayBFul(IdxB,:), 1)

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yugh. You're right about the ugly part. I'll try this later today and see if it's faster or slower than the two-line implementation, then go with the faster of the two. Regardless, thank you for the education.
The two line version would typically be faster, as calling an anonymous function is notably slower than calling a non-anonymous function.
Understood. Ty for the heads-up.

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