MATLAB: Using pdist with two matrix’s

Question

Hi,

So if I have one 102×2 matrix of x,y coordinates, and another 102×2 matrix of x,y coordinates, can pdist be used to compare all the rows in matrix 1 with the rows in matrix 2? As in for matrix one row 1, the x,y coordinates are compared to matrix 2 row 1 x,y coordinates; row 2 mat1 is compared to row 2 mat2 etc to find the distance between them, for all 102 rows?

I want to find their distances but I can't quite understand the help page on pdist, can it be used for this or is there another function I should look at?

Many thanks!

Answer 1

Use pdist2()

distances = pdist2(xySet1, xySet2);