How to find the position of smallest element in an array.

Suppose there is an array called 'x' which contains elements such as, [12,13,16,10,17,9,19,45]. How to find the position of the smallest element of the array. Here the smallest element is '9' and its position is 6.(Can it have a solution for this with out using 'function' and using the function both.

[KL]

Just google or search in matlab documentation.

in the command line,

doc min

Answer 1

[KSSV]

doc min

k = [12,13,16,10,17,9,19,45] ;
[val,idx] = min(k)

[aditya sahu]

Thank you, dear friend, @ "KSSV", you answer is right. But, suppose x=[20,30,10] and the minimum of 1st and 2nd element is required only and 3rd element should not be considered even if it is small. i.e in this example, the value of 'idx' should be 1 only i.e 20. not 10. Could you kindly help?

[aditya sahu]

I got it ...[val,idx] = min(k(1:2))..Thank you dear @ KSSV...HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY/NIGHT.

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