calculation of successive diffrence

Hi all!

I have a problem with this : I have an array:

 % A=[a1 a2 a3 a4 ......an]

i want to calculate succesivelly the diffrenece:

 % B=[a2-a1 a3-a2 a4-a3........] but with this condition:

if for exemple a(i)-a(i-1)==2, the diffrence a(i+1)-a(i-1) schould be calculated and the diffrence a(i)-a(i-1)==2 should be eleminated from the Array B.

i wish you could help , Thank you

[the cyclist]

Often in these cases, a small (but complete) example helps to illustrate what you mean. For example, what should the output be if

A = [2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19]

?

The way I am interpreting your question must be wrong, because I would calculate every difference, but then remove every difference from B, leaving an empty matrix.

Answer 1

[Andrei Bobrov]

B = diff(A);
B1 = conv(A,[1 0 -1],'valid');
idx = find(B == 2);
ii = idx <= numel(B1);
i2 = idx(ii);
B(i2) = B1(i2);

Answer 2

[Anuj]

B = diff(A);
B(find((B==2))=B(find(B==2)+1)+2