MATLAB: Change in odometer.

.csv filefor loop

Hello MATLAB community
I am trying to find the Change in Odometer, and below is my code. Odometer here is a bunch of data in a column. I feel like my i should start from 1, but when I make the i equals to 1, I am getting an error says indices are not the same. Can anyone help me fix this problem by making the i equals to 1? 
Odometer = load('40815Odometer.csv'); % in miles
for i = 2 : length(Odometer+1)
    changeInOdometer = Odometer(i) - Odometer(i-1)
end
ChangeInOdometer = changeInOdometer - Odometer(1)

Best Answer

Hi Ireedui,
It looks like you wanted to get the difference of two consecutive odometer readings.
The diff function will help in this case. Here is the documentation link for diff function: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/diff.html
% For example Odometer has values [5 9 6 3];, Change in odometer readings will be 4 -3 -3
ChangeInOdometer = diff(Odometer);
% if you wanted even to store the first value,
ChangeInOdometer = [Odometer(1) diff(Odometer)];
To work off your code
% If you only wanted the diff
Odometer = load('40815Odometer.csv'); % in miles

for i = 2 : length(Odometer)
    changeInOdometer(i-1) = Odometer(i) - Odometer(i-1)
end
% If you want to store the first value
Odometer = load('40815Odometer.csv'); % in miles
changeInOdometer(1) = Odometer(1);
for i = 2 : length(Odometer)
    changeInOdometer(i) = Odometer(i) - Odometer(i-1)
end
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Sriram
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