MATLAB - Create repeated sequences of ones and zeros with loops - matlab

Question

I am trying to create a single column vector (out), which is comprised of a sequence of ones and zeros. These should occur in sets of length B and C respectively, which are repeated A number of times. For example:
out=[1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0]
It is currently set up as:
out=[0]; %not ideal, but used to initially define 'out'
A=3;
B=1;
C=2;
for i = 1:length(A)
for ii = 1:length(B)
out(end+1,1) = ones(ii,1);
end
for iii = 1:length(C)
out(end+1,1) = zeros(iii,1);
end
end
This is not working - current output:
out=[0
1
0]
How can I correct these loops to get the desired output? Also, is there a better way of achieving this with the given the inputs?
Many thanks.

Answer 1

1) You do not need to use length as this returns the length of an array type, so A,B,C will all be length of 1.
2) Just directly use the values as shown below. Also you can initialize an empty array with empty brackets []
3) If you're using the zeros and ones commands, these generate whole arrays/matrices and do not need to be in a loop. If you want to keep your loop version, just use =1 or =0
out=[]; %--> you can use this instead
A=3;
B=1;
C=2;
for i = 1:A
out(end+1:end+B,1) = ones(B,1);
out(end+1:end+C,1) = zeros(C,1);
end
... or of course to be more "Matlaby" just do what David said in the comments repmat([ones(B,1);zeros(C,1)],A,1), but the above is there to help you on your way.

Answer 2

How about some modulo arithmetic?
result = double(mod(0:(B+C)*A-1, B+C)<B).';
Example:
>> B = 2; %// number of ones in each period
>> C = 4; %// number of zeros in each period
>> A = 3; %// number of periods
>> result = double(mod(0:(B+C)*A-1, B+C)<B).'
result =
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0

Answer 3

I can suggest 2 ways:
a)Using for loop-
A=3;
B=2;
C=3;
OneVector=ones(1,B); % B is the length of ones.
zeroVector=zeros(1,C); % C is the length of zeros.
combinedVector=cat(2,OneVector,zeroVector);
Warehouse=[]; % to save data
for(i=1:A)
Warehouse=cat(2,Warehouse,combinedVector);
end
b)using repmat:
OneVector=ones(1,B); % B is the length of ones.
zeroVector=zeros(1,C); % C is the length of zeros.
combinedVector=cat(2,OneVector,zeroVector);
Warehouse=repmat(combinedVector, [A,1]);
I hope, this will solve your problem.