How to convert all inf values into zero value

I sometimes generate values which are inf. And it appears all over the code I want to catch all that occurances of Inf and convert it to zero value whenever it appears. Can i do that?

Answer 1

[Awais Saeed]

A = [3 1 24 inf; 65 21 56 12;inf inf 231 inf;0 12 inf 231];
A(isinf(A)) = 0     % find inf values and replace with 0

[Ghaith Mustafa]

The inf values in my code appears in equations not in vector What i want is to set all inf appears in each equation into zero

[Awais Saeed]

Sorry I do not know how to replace inf in equations

[Walter Roberson]

@Ghaith Mustafa

Do you mean that you are using the Symbolic Toolbox and you are generating symbolic expressions that have symbolic inf ?

Or do you mean that you are dynamically overflowing numerically and you want to set inf instead?

In order to override inf dynamically, you would have to cheat on "dbstop if naninf" and it would be pretty tricky to do.

For example if you have

A = [realmax/10 realmax 2]
sum(A)

then adding realmax/10 + realmax would overflow to infinity, and you would want that overflow replaced with 0, and then you would want that 0 added to the 2, for a net sum() of 2. But MATLAB is permitted to sum() in any order (it breaks large sum() into pieces and does the pieces on multiple cores in parallel), so the realmax+2 part might be done first, which would give realmax as the result because 2 is far smaller than eps(realmx). Then the realmax/10 would be added to that realmax result, giving overflow that you would want to replace with 0, giving a net result for the sum() of 0... obviously not consistent with the 2 just talked about.

(inf+inf)*0

should give... (0+0)*0 = 0 ?? Rather than giving inf*0 = NaN ??