MATLAB: Find all numeric values right after the NaN values in a column vector

findindicesnanvector

Good evening,
I have a column vector such that
    vec = [1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; Nan ; 5 ; 6 ; 7 ; 8 ; Nan ; 9 ; 10 ; 11 ; 12 ; Nan];
I would like to find extract the elements of the vector ''vec'' that are located right after the NaN, such that I would get a new vector:
    new_vec=[5;9]
It is very easy to find the indices of all the NaN elements, however I don't know how to 'shift' those indices a place further to locate the values right after the NaN.
Thanks for your help in advance,
KMT

Best Answer

index  = isnan(vec);
result = vec([false; index(1:end-1)]);
Or in one line:
result = vec([false; isnan(vec(1:end-1))]);
This is "logical indexing" and "shifting" is simply to insert a FALSE at the beginning.
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