Re: Smartly accessing the last element of a vector / matrix

[Paul Kienzle]

x(1,end), x(1,end-1) ...

- Paul

On Nov 18, 2004, at 6:14 AM, Ploett Norbert wrote:

> Hello,
>
> a question just in case I missed something in the manuals:
>
> Is there a more concise notation to access the last element e.g. of a
> vector? I am writing things like:
>
> x = rand(1,10);
> lastx = x(1,columns(x));
>
> Wouldn't it be snappy to write something Python-like:
>
> lastx = x(1,-1);
>
> and then
>
> butlastx = x(1,-2);
>
> etc.
>
> Anybody have any hints?
>
>
> Norbert
>
>
>
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