Problem 105. How to find the position of an element in a vector without using the find function

Solution 133859

Submitted on 3 Sep 2012

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Jon Agustsson on 6 Sep 2012

It is funny that this
feval(@eval, '[~, ans] = max(x==y);')
has smaller size than this
[~, ans] = max(x==y);

Test	Status	Code Input and Output
1	Fail	%% x = [1 3 5 4 2]; y = 2 posX_correct = 5; assert(isequal(findPosition(x,y),posX_correct)) Error: You may not use the command(s) eval in your code
2	Fail	%% x = [1 5 8 6 7 6 0]; y = 8 posX_correct = 3; assert(isequal(findPosition(x,y),posX_correct)) Error: You may not use the command(s) eval in your code

Test

Status

Code Input and Output

Fail

%% x = [1 3 5 4 2]; y = 2 posX_correct = 5; assert(isequal(findPosition(x,y),posX_correct))

Error: You may not use the command(s) eval in your code

Fail

%% x = [1 5 8 6 7 6 0]; y = 8 posX_correct = 3; assert(isequal(findPosition(x,y),posX_correct))

Error: You may not use the command(s) eval in your code