MATLAB: How do you increment and continue until the end of all your experiments

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Hello, I'm very new to matlab and have a question about my code. What I'm trying to do is find the average number of turns before an ace appears. I created an Array Deck and each turn would "draw" a random number from the array which represents a card. 1,14,27,40 represents the ACEs. Every time an ace is drawn it stops my "if-else" loop but I'm trying to run the experiment 1000 time to get a stable average. But the experiments stops once it finds the ACE. How would I increment the loop and have it start again until 1000 experiments is finish.
my code:
 N=1000;
 turns=0;
 ace = 0;
 for experiments = 1:N %run the for loop up to 1000;
        deck = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52];
        msize = numel(deck);
        card = deck(randperm(msize,1));
            if (card == 1)||(card == 14)||(card == 27)||(card == 40)
                ace=ace+1;
                fprintf('we got an ACE at turn:  %d\n ',turns+1)
                return %ends the loop
             else
                turns = turns+1;
                fprintf('turns: %d\n', turns);
            end
          end

Best Answer

You can simplify a lot your code. Try this
N=100;
aces = [1,14,27,40];
first_ace_n = zeros(1,N);
for k=1:N
    %a random stack of 52 cards
    deck = randperm(52);
    %find where all aces are
    [C,ix_deck,ix_aces]=intersect(deck,aces);
    %number of card to find the first ace
    first_ace_n(k) = min(ix_deck);
    fprintf('We got first ace at card: %d \n',first_ace_n(k));
end
mean_card_n = mean(first_ace_n)
Last line gives you the mean number of cards to find the first ace.
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