Flip order of elements function in MATLAB R2011a - matlab

Question

I am using MATLAB version R2011a, a friend of mine is using R2014b which contains the function "Flip", which flips the order of elements, this function is vital to our program that compares Matrix'es.
My problem is R2011a does not have this function, it has fliplr,flipud and flipdim. I have tried using fliplr and then flipud to try and recreate the same function but eventually it doesn't work since i'm using the function corr which requires using that it's two arguments be the same dimensions.
I need advise on how to create the flip function that is available on R2014b.
The function that is problematic:
%This function gets the DNA signiture with the relative freq of each perm at
%the refernce text, the DNA signiture with the relative freq of each perm at
%the compare text, and the MaxPerm, and return the relative editor distance
%between the 2 texts.
function [distance]=EditorDistance2 (RefDNAWithFreq,CmpDNAWithFreq,MaxPerm)
if MaxPerm>2
MaxPerm=2;
end
str='Editor Distance compare begun';
disp(str);
distance=[];
for PermLength=1:MaxPerm
freq=sum(0:PermLength);
PermInitial=freq+1;
permEnd=freq+PermLength;
%create an ordered matrix of all the perms with length "PermLength"
%in the ref text
CurRefPerms=RefDNAWithFreq(:,freq:permEnd);
OrderedRefCurPerms=sortrows(CurRefPerms);
OrderedRefCurPerms=flip(OrderedRefCurPerms);
OrderedRefCurPerms(:,1)=[];
OrderedRefCurPerms=ZeroCutter(OrderedRefCurPerms);
%create an ordered matrix of all the perms with length "PermLength"
%in the cmp text
CurcmpPerms=CmpDNAWithFreq(:,freq:permEnd);
OrderedCmpCurPerms=sortrows(CurcmpPerms);
OrderedCmpCurPerms=flip(OrderedCmpCurPerms);
OrderedCmpCurPerms(:,1)=[];
OrderedCmpCurPerms=ZeroCutter(OrderedCmpCurPerms);
len1=size(OrderedRefCurPerms,1);
len2=size(OrderedCmpCurPerms,1);
edit=1;
matrix=zeros(len2,len1);
%initiate first row of the first stirng
for i=2:len1
matrix(1,i)=matrix(1,i-1)+1;
end
%initiate first column of the second stirng
for i=2:len2
matrix(i,1)=matrix(i-1,1)+1;
end
%start algoritem
for i=2:len2
for j=2:len1
if OrderedRefCurPerms(j-1,:)==OrderedCmpCurPerms(i-1,:)
edit=0;
end
if (i>2 & j>2 & OrderedRefCurPerms(j-1,:)==OrderedCmpCurPerms(i-2,:) & RefDNAWithFreq(j-2)==CmpDNAWithFreq(i-1) )
matrix(i,j)= min([matrix(i-1,j)+1,... deletion
matrix(i,j-1)+1,... insertion
matrix(i-2,j-2)+1,... substitution
matrix(i-1,j-1)+edit... transposition
]);
else
matrix(i,j) = min([matrix(i-1,j)+1,... deletion
matrix(i,j-1)+1,... insertion
matrix(i-1,j-1)+edit... substitution
]);
end
edit=1;
end
end
%The Distance is the last elment of the matrix.
if i~=1
tempdistance = matrix( floor( len2 / 3 ) , floor( len1 / 3 ) );
tempdistance=tempdistance/floor(len2/3);
else
tempdistance = matrix( len2,len1 );
tempdistance= tempdistance/len2;
end
tempdistance=1-tempdistance;
distance=[distance tempdistance];
end
end
I will further explain myself, the function which I am trying to use is A=flip(A)
The function that causes me problems is this one
%This function gets the DNA signiture with the relative freq of each perm at
%the refernce text, the DNA signiture with the relative freq of each perm at
%the compare text, and the MaxPerm, and return the corralation between the 2 texts.
function [Corvector]=CorrelationCompare(RefDNAWithFreq,CmpDNAWithFreq,MaxPerm)
str='corraltion compare begun';
disp(str);
%this vector will contain the corralation between the freqs of
%each perms vector(each length)
Corvector=[];
for PermLength=1:MaxPerm
freq=sum(0:PermLength);
PermInitial=freq+1;
permEnd=freq+PermLength;
%Cor is correlation between the 2 texts
refPerms=RefDNAWithFreq(:,freq);
cmpPerms=CmpDNAWithFreq(:,freq);
refPerms=ZeroCutter(refPerms);
cmpPerms=ZeroCutter(cmpPerms);
tempCor=corr(refPerms,cmpPerms);
Corvector =[Corvector tempCor];
% making a graph of the perms, and the relative freq of the texts.
x=ZeroCutter ( RefDNAWithFreq(:,PermInitial:permEnd) );
y1=refPerms;
y2=cmpPerms;
xchars=char(x);
Xcols=size(x,1);
o=ones(Xcols,1);
xco=mat2cell(xchars,o,PermLength);
xaxis=(1:Xcols);
figure
stem(xaxis,y1,'r');
hold
stem(xaxis,y2,'g');
set(gca,'XTick',xaxis)
set(gca,'XTickLabel',xco,'fontname','david');
xlabel('Perms');
ylabel('Perm frequency');
TitleOfGraph=sprintf('comapre between reference text to the compared, %d letters perm\n correlation=%f',PermLength,Corvector(PermLength));
legend('reference','compared');
title(TitleOfGraph);
end
end
The Error that I recieve when using a diffrent flip command is
??? Error using ==> corr at 102
X and Y must have the same number of rows.
Error in ==> CorrelationCompare at 27
tempCor=corr(refPerms,cmpPerms);
I apologize for the long codes but it's hard to explain it all since it's a big project and a lot of it was done by my partner

Answer 1

This should work for you -
function out = flip_hacked(A,dim)
%// Get an array of all possible dimensions
dims = 1:ndims(A);
%// Interchange first dimension and dim
dims(dim) = 1;
dims(1) = dim;
A1 = permute(A,[dims]);
%// Reshape A1 into a 2D matrix and then flip along the first dimension,
%// which would correspond to the flipping along dim and then interchange dim
%// and first dim again to keep the size of data same as input and elements
%// being flipped along dim for the desired output
A2 = reshape(A1,size(A1,1),[]);
out = permute(reshape(A2(end:-1:1,:),size(A1)),dims);
return;
It follows the same syntax as the official flip function that's stated in the official documentation as follows -
B = flip(A,dim) reverses the order of the elements in A along
dimension dim. For example, if A is a matrix, then flip(A,1) reverses
the elements in each column, and flip(A,2) reverses the elements in
each row.

Answer 2

In addition to the generic solution provided by Divakar you could simply use:
flip = #(A) A(end:-1:1, :);
A = flip(A);
To reverse the elements in each column of a matrix A. Even simpler:
A = A(end:-1:1, :);