How to use logical indexing for a column of 0 and 1

Hello! I am stil learning the basics of matlab and am having trouble with logical indexing. Each excel sheet has the same number of columns yet vary by number of rows. I want to take column "data(:,end-6)" which has a column of 0 and 1 and take all the rows that have the number 1 and create a new array and do more math calculations, using only the rows with a number 1 in that column. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

The best place to get started learning about logical arrays is Ch 12 of MATLAB Onramp.

A simple example:

x = (1:10)';
% extract rows where x>5
ind = x>5

ind = 10×1 logical array
   0
   0
   0
   0
   0
   1
   1
   1
   1
   1

x(ind)

ans = 5×1

6 7 8 9 10

% or just simply
x(x>5)

ans = 5×1

6 7 8 9 10

[iceskating911]

Thanks! That helped a lot! Now the only issue I am still getting is that ind takes the column and stores it, rather than taking the row within the column that has a 1 value. Is there a step I am still missing?

        %Pull out rows that contain 1 (added into the columns in row 
        %(:,end-1) by using logical indexing
        D = (rawdata(:,end-6));
        ind = D>0.9;
        D_data = D(ind);

[Cris LaPierre]

ind returns a logical for every element, indicating whether it meets the criteria or not. When used as an index, only true values are extracted. The challenge perhaps with your data set is that the extracted data is also 1, so it may be hard to discern between the logical array and the actual values.

Also, if your values are exactly 1, you can use ind = D==1;

[iceskating911]

Thank you