Generating vector with certain element of matrix

Say, I have a matrix M = [ 4 5; 10 4; 4 7; 20 6; 4 8 ] I wanna create a vector with 4 (4's that exist only in 1st column) I can't consider 4's from 2nd column of the matrix. Answer will be : V = [4 5 7 8]

By find function, I get [4 5 ; 4 7; 4 8] but how to store them as [4 5 7 8] ?

Another question: side = find(M(1,:) == 4) gives me [4 5 ; 4 7; 4 8]. I have [4 5] already. So, I only want [4 7; 4 8] as output So, how to exclude [4 5] , or first row. I am trying to apply ~ . But, how?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

This works:

A = [ 4 5; 10 4; 4 7; 20 6; 4 8 ];
N = 4;
Result = [N; A(A(:,1)==N,2)]';

With those column constraints, it is possible to use ‘logical indexing’ to get the result.

[Tanmoy]

Thank you so much.

[Star Strider]

My pleasure.