Assignment has more non-singleton rhs dimensions than non-singleton subscripts

I am trying to execute a loop and getting this error how can i get out of it

% distanceOfAllNearestTargets = zeros(numberOfNearestNeighbors, 1);
locationNumberOfAllNearestTargets = zeros(numberOfNearestNeighbors, 1);
for ii = 1 : 1 : numberOfNearestNeighbors
    locationNumberOfAllNearestTargets(ii, 1) = find(distanceOfAllTargetsFromCurrentPosition == min(distanceOfAllTargetsFromCurrentPosition));
    distanceOfAllNearestTargets(ii, 1) = distanceOfAllTargetsFromCurrentPosition(locationNumberOfAllNearestTargets(ii));
    distanceOfAllTargetsFromCurrentPosition(locationNumberOfAllNearestTargets(ii, 1)) = max(distanceOfAllTargetsFromCurrentPosition);
end

[madhan ravi]

numberOfNearestNeighbors?

[muhammad ahmad]

10

[Walter Roberson]

Can you guarantee that there is only exactly one value that is the minimum distance? Probably not.

[muhammad ahmad]

yeah not

[Rik]

A non-related note: I want to compliment you on the use of descriptive variables.

[madhan ravi]

Upload all the necessary details , saves time!

[muhammad ahmad]

mean? discriptive variable?

[muhammad ahmad]

@madhan Ravi, I have a quite complex code it is just a function of that code.in which I need to generate an array of distances equal to a number of nearest target

Answer 1

[Rik]

find is not guaranteed to result 1 value. It might return a vector, or an empty array. If you are certain there will always be 1 result or more, you can use the later inputs to find to limit the results it returns to either the first one or the last one. If that doesn't fit your situation, you should store the find result in a temporary variable and use switch (or if) to handle the three cases (so numel(temp_result)==0, >1, and ==1).

locationNumberOfAllNearestTargets(ii, 1) = find(distanceOfAllTargetsFromCurrentPosition == min(distanceOfAllTargetsFromCurrentPosition),1,'first');

[muhammad ahmad]

did not exactly got your idea

[Rik]

find returns a vector, which you try to store in a single position. That doesn't fit, so you have to pick 1 result from that vector. By using my suggested line of code as a replacement, find only returns the index to the first result it finds.

Try it out with a smaller example:

A=[0 0 1 1 0 1 0];
find(A)
find(A,1,'first')
find(A,1,'last')

[muhammad ahmad]

it works but how to do it in loop

[Walter Roberson]

To do it in a loop, put a loop around it ?

We can see that you know how to write loops, so we are not clear as to what the question is?

[muhammad ahmad]

yeah but doing this in a loop cause same error after one iteration

[Rik]

Try to make a small example that reproduces your error. You can attach a mat file with the actual data to your comment if you can't figure out a way to generate some example data.