MATLAB: Find at least 5 consecutive values above a certain threshold in a vector

consecutive threshold

I have a vector
M = [3,3,5,7,8,8,9,7,4,3,2,1,7,6,5,2,2,2];
I want to find at least 5 consecutive values which are above the threshold, which is 4. So the vector will be
N = [5,7,8,8,9,7]
Could anyone help me with this? Thanks.

Best Answer

mask = M > 4;
starts = strfind([0 mask], [0 1 1 1 1 1]);
stops = strfind([mask 0], [1 1 1 1 1 0]);
N = M(starts(1) : stops(1))