How to exchange group of rows of a matrix in MATLAB? - matlab

Question

I have a matrix A ,and vector x as following (left side)
where S0, H0,...is row number of each block. I want to exchange these blocks such that S0 and S1; H0 and H1 are near together as right side. This is my code
S0=3;
H0=2;
N0=2;
S1=4;
H1=5;
N1=4;
Cols=5;
Rows=S0+H0+N0+S1+H1+N1;
A=randi(10,[ Rows Cols]);
x=randi(10,[Rows 1]);
%% Exchange two block
temp=A(S0+H0+1:S0+H0+N0,1:end);
A(S0+H0+1:S0+H0+H1,1:end)=A(S0+H0+N0+S1+1:S0+H0+N0+S1+H1,1:end);
A(S0+H0+N0+S1+1:S0+H0+N0+S1+H1,1:end)=temp;
%% How exchange x
The above code is not work. How can I fixed it in MATLAB? Thank in advance.

Answer 1

One approach with mat2cell and cell2mat -
grps = [S0,H0,N0,S1,H1,N1]
new_pattern = [1 4 2 5 3 6]
celldata_roworder = mat2cell((1:size(A,1))',grps); %//'
newx = cell2mat(celldata_roworder(new_pattern)).'; %//'
newA = A(newx,:)
Sample run -
Input :
A =
6 8 9 8 7
4 8 8 3 4
3 8 2 1 10
5 2 6 8 3
5 7 4 7 7
4 5 6 8 7
6 3 4 7 4
8 1 5 5 2
5 9 2 4 1
5 2 3 9 5
2 2 1 4 2
1 7 10 9 8
3 9 7 8 4
4 6 10 9 9
7 8 2 6 8
10 2 10 7 6
10 10 8 10 2
5 6 6 5 10
3 7 5 1 3
8 1 3 9 10
grps =
3 2 2 4 5 4
new_pattern =
1 4 2 5 3 6
Output:
newx =
1 2 3 8 9 10 11 4 5 12 ...
13 14 15 16 6 7 17 18 19 20
newA =
3 3 2 5 8
4 3 3 7 7
1 5 2 8 1
4 6 4 1 4
7 1 5 8 8
4 9 10 10 8
7 10 10 4 3
7 3 1 6 9
2 9 2 6 10
1 1 7 10 3
10 10 10 4 7
9 1 8 9 5
8 7 4 5 7
9 8 7 5 3
1 10 7 6 8
8 1 10 6 1
4 6 3 3 2
7 9 3 2 9
6 9 7 4 8
6 7 6 8 10

Answer 2

I assume you are using a 2-dimensional matrix with Row rows and Cols columns.
You can use the colon : as a second index to address a full row, e.g. for the third row:
A(3, :)
(equal to A(3, 1:end) but little bit clearer).
So you could split your matrix into lines and re-arrange them like this (putting back together the lines to a two-dimensional matrix):
A = [ A(3:4, :); A(1:2, :); A(5:end, :) ]
This moves rows 3 and 4 at the beginning, then old lines 1 and 2 and then all the rest. Does this help you?
Hint: you can use eye for experimenting.