merging vectors together with alternating values

Hello,

I want to merge two vectors like this:

A=[ 1; 2; 3; 4;] B=[5; 6; 7; 8;]

resulting vector

C=[1; 5; 2; 6; 3; 7; 4; 8;]

Thank you

Answer 1

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

vec=[A B]';
C=vec(:)

>> A=[ 1; 2; 3; 4]

Example:

>> A=[ 1; 2; 3; 4]
A =

     1
     2
     3
     4

>> B=[5; 6; 7; 8]

B =

     5
     6
     7
     8

>> vec=[A B]'

vec =

     1     2     3     4
     5     6     7     8

>> C=vec(:)

C =

     1
     5
     2
     6
     3
     7
     4
     8

>> 

Answer 2

[Star Strider]

Try this:

A=[1; 2; 3; 4];  
B=[5; 6; 7; 8];
C = [A(:) B(:)]';
C = C(:)

producing:

C =
     1
     5
     2
     6
     3
     7
     4
     8

[Stephen23]

+1 nice use of colon to ensure the orientation.

[Star Strider]

@Stephen — Thank you! I want it to be as robust as possible.

Answer 3

[Indrasish Chakraborty]

What if the two vectors are of unequal length ?

For example -

A=[2 4 5 7 8]

B=[3 8 0 1]

Then how to get C=[2 3 4 8 5 0 7 1 8] ?

[shikhar tyagi]

A=[1; 0; 3; 4 ;6 ;0];

B=[5; 6; 7 ;0 ;4];

C=cat(1,A,B);

C([1:2:end,2:2:end])=C

I hope this helps

[Indrasish Chakraborty]

:v It helped

Answer 4

[Nils Odenwald]

I recommend the MATLAB function "reshape", which allows you to change the order of arrays. You can also manipulate different data types such as strings.

Example:

A = [1; 2; 3; 4; 5];
B = [0; 0; 0; 0; 0];
result = reshape([A B]',[],1)

result = 10×1

1 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 0