Output of the row of a vector which has the same entry as a second vector

Hello,

Problem: Two vectors a and b. Id like to know in which row of the vector a, the entries of a and b are the same. Output vector r. if a entry in b occurs twice/triple/... the output of the row should also be twice/triple/...

I tried it like this:

a=[1 3 5 8 9 10 13 16]';
b=[2 5 1 1 8 8 8]';
r=find(ismember(a,b))

Solution: r =[1;3;4]

desired solution: r =[1;1;3;4;4;4]

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Andrei Bobrov]

[c,d] = ismember(sort(b),a)
r = d(c);

Answer 1

[Matt Fig]

You were close, but you want to switch the order of the arguments to ISMEMBER and use the two output call.

% Original data
a=[1 3 5 8 9 10 13 16]';
b=[2 5 1 1 8 8 8]';

% Get R
[H,R] = ismember(b,a);
R = sort(R(H))  % Do you really need it sorted??

[Matt]

thx a lot!

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

 a=[1 3 5 8 9 10 13 16]'; 
b=[2 5 1 1 8 8 8]';
un=ones(numel(b),1)
out=cell2mat(arrayfun(@(x) un(b==a(x))*x,(1:numel(a))','un',0))