Why am I getting an error trying to sort this array?
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I'm trying to learn Matlab and have been using code directly from the documentation to test things out. When I type the following code I get the error "Index exceeds the number of array elements (1)."
Code:
A = [9 0 -7 5 3 8 -10 4 2];
B = sort(A)
Can someone explain why this is happening?
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william Eisner
on 16 May 2022
Same here. cut and past on an empty page. I cleared sort and problem went away.
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Jess Lovering
on 3 Oct 2019
Are you using the variable name "sort" in another part of your code? This has happened to me in the past if I define a variable using the name of a function.
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Walter Roberson
on 4 Oct 2019
What shows up if you use
which -all sort
Your code might not assign to sort but at some point in the past you assigned to sort and the variable is still in your workspace.
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