How do I find if the three arrays of unequal size have the same values?

I have three arrays (ind1, ind2, ind3) that contain indices for three other arrays (ph1,ph2,ph3). ph1 ph2 and ph3 are functions of time/distance that are occuring at the same time but at different distances. Ind1 Ind2 and Ind3 contain the indices of when the values of ph are valid for the respective array. I would like to know when the arrays (ind1,ind2,ind3) have the same values so I can know when ph1 ph2 and ph3 have valid values at the exact same time. My current code is:

%check if the same points in each track are the same

lia=ismember(ind1,ind2);

lia1=find(lia==1);

lib=ismember(ind3,lia1);

lib1=find(lib==1);

Is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

[Torsten]

... or

intersect(i1,intersect(i2,i3))

Answer 2

[David Hill]

f=find(ind1==ind2&ind2==ind3&ind1==ind3);

[Shayma Al Ali]

Thank you for your response! I tried it but I recieved an error saying the arrays have incompatible sizes.

[David Hill]

Maybe I misunderstood you. Did you not mean (ind1,ind2,ind3) have the same values on the same row? Or did you mean having the same values anywhere in all three arrays? If the latter, then:

temp=ind1(ismember(ind1,ind2));
temp=ind3(ismember(ind3,temp));%these are the numbers that are the same in all three arrays

If they need to be the same across the row, you could padd the shorter arrays with nan to make them the same size.

m=max(length(ind1),length(ind2),length(ind3));
ind1=[ind1,nan(1,m-length(ind1))];
ind2=[ind2,nan(1,m-length(ind2))];
ind3=[ind3,nan(1,m-length(ind3))];
f=find(ind1==ind2&ind2==ind3&ind1==ind3);

Answer 3

[Bruno Luong]

Use FEX mintersect

i1 = [1 3 4];
i2 = [4 4 2 5];
i3 = [5 4 1 5 3 3 2]; 
mintersect(i1, i2, i3)

[Bruno Luong]

mintersect can also return the (first) place where the commmon elements are located

i1 = [1 2 4];
i2 = [4 4 2 5];
i3 = [5 4 1 5 3 3 2]; 
[common l1 l2 l3] = mintersect(i1, i2, i3);
common
i1(l1)
i2(l2)
i3(l3)

result

common =

     2     4


ans =

     2     4


ans =

     2     4


ans =

     2     4