Can i debug a for loop ?

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Daniel Wurster
Daniel Wurster on 24 Jun 2019
Commented: infinity on 25 Jun 2019
Hello, i clicked through the answers, but it didnt help.
What am i trying to do? Put for each round of the loop two values in file. Overall 9 rounds, two values each -> 18 values
What have i done? - I've created two 9x6 matrices called xwerte and ywerte
- I've created two arrays called xd_ref and yd_ref
Script looks like this:
% Loop goes trough each row
for j=1:length(xwerte)
% loope goes through each column of specific row
for i=1:length(xwerte(j,:))
% Simple function that gives out two values and puts it into file
[S, ab] = dist_pt2refTraj(xwerte(j,i), ywerte(j,i), xd_ref, yd_ref);
save('trajektorien.mat', 'S', 'ab');
if ab > 20
error('Error. \n ab is to big')
end
end
end
If i click on run, i get in my file only two values, not 18.
How can i debug through each loop? Or whats the problem here?
Thanks a lot.

Accepted Answer

infinity
infinity on 24 Jun 2019
Hello,
In your code, you save variables "S" and "ab" with the same name for each loop. Therefore, the 'trajektorien.mat' only stores the value of the last loop.
To avoid this problem you should save "S" and "ab" for each loop to a vector. Then just save the vector. Because of depending on how do you want to store data, below could be a possible solution
saveS_ab = [];
% Loop goes trough each row
for j=1:length(xwerte)
% loope goes through each column of specific row
for i=1:length(xwerte(j,:))
% Simple function that gives out two values and puts it into file
[S, ab] = dist_pt2refTraj(xwerte(j,i), ywerte(j,i), xd_ref, yd_ref);
saveS_ab = [saveS_ab; S ab];
save('trajektorien.mat', 'saveS_ab');
if ab > 20
error('Error. \n ab is to big')
end
end
end
Now, you data is store in varibale "saveS_ab"
Check does it work or not.
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Daniel Wurster
Daniel Wurster on 25 Jun 2019
Hello Jan, thanks for the answer. Whats the reason to pre-allocation the output in the same size as xwerte?
If i click on run i get:
error using vertcat
Dimension of arrays being concatenated are not consistent.
Error in (Filename) (line27)
saveS_ab = [saveS_ab; S ab];
If i click on run and changed saveS_ab = zeros(size(xwerte)); to saveS_ab = [];
i get no error.
infinity
infinity on 25 Jun 2019
Thank @Jan.
These sugguestions will optimize the code and save time for the case of big data.

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