MATLAB: What is the meaning of these two lines

for loopmatrix manipulation

siz = size(P);
for i = 1:siz(2)

with P is a 2*k matrix, P =[p1 …..pk] I want to understand what siz(2) means in the for loop. Thanks!!

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Saf - the size function returns the dimensions of the input parameter. In your case, if P is a 2x12 matrix so size(P) is

 siz = size(P);
 siz = 
  [ 2 12 ]

The for loop then iterates from 1 to siz(2) which (in this case) will be 12. So the loop will iterate over the number of columns in P.

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