run a while loop while excluding some point

This is a pretty basic but silly doubt i have.

Suppose, i have a while loop in my code, something like this:

 f=1; 

 while f<365

    % some functions with variable f.

    f=f+1;

 end;

So, ideally the while loop will run for values of variable 'f' from 1 to 365.

Now, i don't want to run the loop for variable values f= 15,16,17,300,...(some 65 values).

How can i employ this in my code?

Thanks.

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Sujit - create an array of those values of f that you wish to ignore and then use that array in your while loop to decide whether to rvalue the functions for f. For example,

 ignoreVals = [15 16 17 300];

 f = 1;

 while f < 365

     if ~ismember(f, ignoreVals)
          % some functions with variable f
     end

     f = f + 1;
 end

In the above code, we use the ismember function to determine whether f is a member of the array of values that we wish to ignore. If not, then we evaluate some functions for that f.

Try the above and see what happens!