Possible to modify only one portion of an array in one line?

I have large arrays (10 to 100k elements) and would like to change some values that are too high, but only after certain point. What I have in mind is something like this:

x = [100 80 70 20 40 10 50 1 60] ;
xMax = 30 ;
transition = 3 ;
x(x>xMax & x(i)>transition) = xMax

I would like to know if there is a more efficient and elegant way of doing it instead of with a loop, like this:

x = [100 80 70 20 40 10 50 1 60] ;
xMax = 30 ;
transition = 3 ;
for i = 1 :length(x)
    if i > transition & x(i) > xMax
        x(i) = xMax ;
    end
end

Is it possible to include two conditions in this manner?

Thanks

Answer 1

[Fabio Freschi]

x(x > xMax & 1:length(x) > transition) = xMax

[Eugenio Gil]

Thank you!

Answer 2

[Guillaume]

x(transition:end) = min(x(transition:end), xMax)

will be more efficient (than the now accepted answer) since it only test the condition values.

your loop is a bit siily. Since you know where the transition is you could just iterate from there:

for i = transition:numel(x)
    if x(i) > xMax
        x(i) = xMax
    end
end

Why bother iterating over elements yoiu're never going to test.

[Eugenio Gil]

That was absolutely silly indeed! Thanks for pointing that out.