order a column of matrix respect to another column

hello,

i am looking at different data sets, that are in different cells, for examle:

c{1}=[1.25,5.05,7.2]; %so an double(3,1)
c{2}=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]; %so an double(7,1)

i am looking to extend c{1} to the same size as c{2} with NaN

c{1}=[c{1},NaN(length(c{2}-c{1}))];%so it would be [1.25,5.05,7.2,NaN,NaN,NaN,NaN]

and what i am having issues to imagin an more or less efficient way to do, is to order c{1} so the numbers and in the same position as in c{2}+/-delta

C{1}=[1.25,NaN,NaN,NaN,5.05,NaN,7.2]

c is bigger than 2 and would like to do this for all the c{i} that are smaller than the one that has more elements inside (this case c{2} but could be another one, this position i could find it directly from max size and do the re arangement only if the size of c{i} is smaller than size(c{max})) but for the example i put it with only two.

[KSSV]

How did you insert NaN's in between? What is the criteria?

[franco otaola]

it is exaclty where i can not find how to do it. where i am now:

load('c.mat')
varPeaks=30;
Max=max(NpeaksSignal);
for i=1:numFiles
    if NpeaksSignal(i)<Max
        c{i}=[c{i};NaN(Max-length(c{i}),1)];
        for j=1:Max
            [~,newPos]=find(c{Max}(:,:)>=c{i}(j)-varPeaks&c{Max}(:,:)<=c{i}(j)+varPeaks);
            dummy=c{i}(newPos);
            c{i}(newPos)=c{i}(j);
            c{i}(newPos)=dummy;
        end
    end
end

in c.mat the one that needs to arranged is column 1. but I do not understand why the last loop does nothing... (is what it is supposed to order c)

Answer 1

[Bruno Luong]

c{1}=[1.25,5.05,7.2]; %so an double(3,1)
c{2}=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]; %so an double(7,1)

i = interp1(c{2},1:length(c{2}),c{1},'nearest','extrap');
c{1} = accumarray(i(:),c{1}(:),[length(c{2}) 1],[],NaN)';

Result

>> c{1}

ans =

    1.2500       NaN       NaN       NaN    5.0500       NaN    7.2000