Comparison of two Vektors with different size to find variables

I have a problem with my read measurement datas.

A vector has a not quite continuous time series of 15 minutes values ​​for a period of 7 years. The second vector or matrix has a continuous (precipitation) time series of 15 minutes values. I have already tried a few things, but I can not come up with a solution to get a vector with the precipitation values ​​corresponding to the "correct" date from the first vector.

An example of my problem:

a = [731947,312500000 
731947,322916667 
731947,333333333 
731947,364583333 
731947,375000000 
731947,395833333 
731947,406250000] 

b = [731947,312500000   2 
731947,322916667   5 
731947,333333333   6 
731947,343750000   8 
731947,354166667   2 
731947,364583333   0 
731947,375000000   0 
731947,385416667   0 
731947,395833333   0 
731947,406250000   0] 

c= [731947,312500000   2 %This should be the result.
731947,322916667   5 
731947,333333333   6 
731947,364583333   0 
731947,375000000   0 
731947,395833333   0 
731947,406250000   0] 

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

E.g.,

x = ismember(b(:,1:2),a(:,1:2),'rows');
c = b(x,:);

Depending on how the times were constructed, you might need to use ismembertol( ).

[Walter Roberson]

I suspect ismembertol() will be needed.

[Josef Bubendorfer]

x = ismember(b(:,1:2),a(:,1:2),'rows');
c = b(x,:);

Thanks for the fast answer. I had to bring the Vektors to same size (with zeros) and then it was working.

[Walter Roberson]

The notation you used for the data was ambiguous. We could not tell whether you had two columns in a or if you were using comma to represent decimal point. But you talked a as being a vector and you show space as a column separator for b, so the evidence is that you are using comma as decimal, but your code is what would be expected if you are using two columns to represent the time instead of comma as decimal indicator.