The most efficient way to locate the first 1's in each row of a matrix

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I have a potentially large r by c matrix, m, consisting of 1's and 0's. What is the most efficient way create a r by 1 vector, v, containing the index of the first 1 in each row of m.
For example,
m = [0 1 1;1 0 0; 0 0 1]
should result in
v = [2;1;3]

Answers (2)

Star Strider
Star Strider on 19 Oct 2019
The max function will return the indices of the first instances of the maximum value it encounters, in the desired dimension. Since your matrix only has (0,1), it is appropriate here.
This:
m = [0 1 1;1 0 0; 0 0 1];
[~,v] = max(m,[],2)
produces:
v =
2
1
3

Jos (10584)
Jos (10584) on 19 Oct 2019
m = [0 1 1 1 ;1 0 1 0; 0 0 1 1 ; 0 0 0 1]
% a simple solution
[r, c] = find(m') ;
clear v1
v1(r,1) = c
% another solution
[v2, ~] = find(cumsum(cumsum(m,2),2)==1)

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