How can i find value tends to zero. means value near by zero.

 l(:,:,1) =

   -0.2881

 l(:,:,2) =

   -0.2823

 l(:,:,3) =

   -0.2775

 l(:,:,4) =

   -0.2767

 l (:,:,5) =

   0.2733

 l(:,:,6) =

   -0.3245

I want value near by zero, with Layer No L. example for maximum value

 [maxV, L] = max(l);

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

   [maxV, L] = max(l, [], 3);

[Triveni]

If my value(s) between +2 to -2. then how can i find nearest value from zero?..

 [maxV, L] = max(l)

gives me same result.

 l(:,:,1) =

    0.5000

 l(:,:,2) =

     1

 l(:,:,3) =

     4

 l(:,:,4) =

   -10

 l(:,:,5) =

     2

 l(:,:,6) =

   -0.9000

 l(:,:,7) =

   -0.5000

I need nearest value from zero. values may be in positive or negative.

[Walter Roberson]

You can find the indices by looking at min(abs(l),[],3) and then to get the corresponding values you can index the original matrix at those locations. Someone had a trick for doing that with the layers, but I do not recall what it is at the moment; I usually code the equivalent of sub2ind()