Matlab Question: How to assign a new name to an amended matrix

[Steve Collins]

I have to replace some matrix columns with some vectors. I am currently copying the original matrix and replacing the column of the matrix I have copied eg:

matrix_1 = matrix_2
matrix_2(:,4) = vector_1

This works fine, but I was wondering if it was possible to maybe amend the original matrix and assign the result a new name?

something like:

(matrix_1(:,4) = vector_1) = matrix_2 'I know this is nonsense, I'm just trying to explain what I mean.'

You can probably tell that I have only just picked up the Matlab book so please bear in mind that my knowledge is very very basic.

Thanks

Steve

 

[Valkarie]

Yes, you can do this. The syntax would look something like this:matrix_2 = matrix_1;matrix_2(:,4) = vector_1;