Filling blanks with zeros

Hello, I have a vector of 1175 values. The vector begins with the following values: 1983, 2004, 2054, 2094, 3107, 3137 etc. Is it possible to fill in the blanks between the values with zeros? So it would be 1982 times 0, than the value 1983, 21 times 0, than the value 2004, 50 times 0, than the value 2054 and so on...

Thanks in advance! Shawn Imming

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

maxval = max(YourVector);
NewVector = zeros(1, maxval);
NewVector(YourVector) = YourVector;

[Shawn Imming]

Thanks this works great!

Answer 2

[KSSV]

clc; clear all ;
yrs = [ 1983, 2004, 2054, 2094, 3107, 3137];
data = rand(1,length(yrs)) ;  % respective values 
[yrs' data']
y = min(yrs):max(yrs) ;
datai = zeros(size(y)) ;
datai(ismember(y,yrs)) = data ;
[y' datai']