Remove zero padding in the vector which has element 0

I have vector A=[1 36 28 95 64 125 44 96 93 21 67 126 59 25 117 0 84 9 6] and then padded with zero until the length multiple of 3. So the newA=[1 36 28 95 64 125 44 96 93 21 67 126 59 25 117 0 84 9 6 0 0]. It is possible to remove zero padding? Because if i used nonzeros, the element 0 of A removed too. The number of elements A vector can not be ascertained

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

You can use find for this:

>> newA = [1,36,28,95,64,125,44,96,93,21,67,126,59,25,117,0,84,9,6,0,0]
newA =
     1    36    28    95    64   125    44    96    93    21    67   126    59    25   117     0    84     9     6     0     0
>> B = newA(1:find(newA,1,'last'))
B =
     1    36    28    95    64   125    44    96    93    21    67   126    59    25   117     0    84     9     6

[Tan]

It worked! Thank you Stephen for telling me:)

Answer 2

[Star Strider]

Using eps (or some other small number) to replace either your original zero or the padded zeros will work also, and not interfere with your calculations with them:

A=[1 36 28 95 64 125 44 96 93 21 67 126 59 25 117 0 84 9 6];
newA=[1 36 28 95 64 125 44 96 93 21 67 126 59 25 117 0 84 9 6 eps eps];
OriginalA = newA(A ~= eps)

[Tan]

I just know there is a padding such as that. I've tried and it worked. Thank you Star Strider for telling me:)

[Star Strider]

My pleasure!