MATLAB: How to compare the length of two matrices and pick the shorter one

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have two nx1 matrices that I want to say for whichever matrix is shorter use that length.

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shorter_length = min( length(FirstVector), length(SecondVector) );

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You could try something like

% Find out the length of the shorter matrix
minLength = min(length(A), length(B));
% Removes any extra elements from the longer matrix
A = A(1:minLength);
B = B(1:minLength);

MATLAB: Error using >= Matrix dimensions must agree

The question at the moment is not about the size of the cell arrays: it is about the size of the content of the cell arrays. For the >= operation to work, the data in the two cells must either be the same size or one of the two must be a scalar.

Watch out especially for character vectors: you can compare them using >= but only when the two are exactly the same length. This is different than the newer string() scalar objects, which can be compared with >= even if they are different lengths.

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