how to access individual values form a matrix

hello all in my proj am confused how to access each element in a matrix one after the other continuously in a large data for ex A=[1 2 3 4 5] is a matrix so first i want to take 1 next 2 and 3 and 4 and so on for some 1000 values so can some one suggest a path to do this

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

You just access them by their index

A(1), A(2), etc

If the matrix is MxN, the linear indices are columnwise, in other words

 A = rand(5,5);
 A(1:5) % gives you the first column
 A(6:10) % gives you the second