MATLAB: Hi, i am trying to delete NoValue from A without hardcoding so that i am only left with numbers and store them in Absorption vector but when i run the code it comes back exactly as it is, please help!!

Question

  A =   20.0872
   16.1710
   20.6179
   17.9930
   18.6397
   16.5852
   22.5673
   21.0629
   19.8378
   19.9037
   20.2171
   21.6581
   21.2016
       NoValue
       NoValue
       NoValue
       NoValue
       NoValue
       NoValue
       NoValue
       NoValue
       NoValue
match = 'NoValue';
for Vec = 1:1:length(A)
    DeleteValues = strcmp(A,match);
    if DeleteValues > 0
        newStr = erase(A,match)
        Absorption = [newStr]
    end
end

Answer 1

The conditional of an if statement can only check one value at a time, yet deletedValues is a vector. For your if statement to work in the code you've written, you'd need to check one value at a time doing something like this.

if DeleteValues(Vec)
    ...

However, you don't need a for loop at all. Take advantage of MATLAB's ability to work with vectors.

  A =   [20.0872
   16.1710
   20.6179
   17.9930
   18.6397
   16.5852
   22.5673
   21.0629
   19.8378
   19.9037
   20.2171
   21.6581
   21.2016
   "NoValue"
   "NoValue"
   "NoValue"
   "NoValue"
   "NoValue"
   "NoValue"
   "NoValue"
   "NoValue"
   "NoValue"];
z = "NoValue";
DeleteValues = strcmp(A,z);
Absorption = A(~DeleteValues)