MATLAB: Replacing values within a row of matrix with a vector

Question

Basicly I have a matrix with only 0 and 1's.

       a = [ 1 0 1 0;...
                1 1 0 1;...
                  0 1 1 0;...
                    1 1 0 0];

And i want to replace the 1's in the first row with the vector

       b = [2 5]

the number of 1's i want to replace will always be the same size as the vector b.

Is there any method for doing this??

Thanks

Answer 1

There are a number of ways

   a = [ 1 0 1 0;...
          1 1 0 1;...
          0 1 1 0;...
          1 1 0 0];
    b = [2 5];
    idx = find(a(1,:) == 1);
    a(1,idx) = b;