any Determine whether any array elements are nonzero Syntax B = any(A) B = any(A,dim) Description B = any(A) tests whether any of the elements along various dimensions of an array is a nonzero number or is logical 1 (true). any ignores entries that are NaN (Not a Number). If A is a vector, any(A) returns logical 1 (true) if any of the elements of A is a nonzero number or is logical 1 (true), and returns logical 0 (false) if all the elements are zero. If A is a matrix, any(A) treats the columns of A as vectors, returning a row vector of logical 1's and 0's. If A is a multidimensional array, any(A) treats the values along the first nonsingleton dimension as vectors, returning a logical condition for each vector. B = any(A,dim) tests along the dimension of A specified by scalar dim. 就是B = any(A),如果A是向量,如果向量里有非0的数,则返回1(true),如果A是矩阵,则把矩阵的列当做向量来处理,函数返回每个列向量的逻辑值; B = any(A,dim)测试由dim表示的A的维度,返回相应逻辑值 Examples Example 1 – Reducing a Logical Vector to a Scalar Condition Given A = [0.53 0.67 0.01 0.38 0.07 0.42 0.69] then B = (A < 0.5) returns logical 1 (true) only where A is less than one half: 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 The any function reduces such a vector of logical conditions to a single condition. In this case, any(B) yields logical 1. This makes any particularly useful in if statements: if any(A < 0.5)do something end where code is executed depending on a single condition, not a vector of possibly conflicting conditions. Example 2– Reducing a Logical Matrix to a Scalar Condition Applying the any function twice to a matrix, as in any(any(A)), always reduces it to a scalar condition. any(any(eye(3))) ans = 1 Example 3 – Testing Arrays of Any Dimension You can use the following type of statement on an array of any dimensions. This example tests a 3-D array to see if any of its elements are greater than 3: x = rand(3,7,5) * 5; any(x(:) > 3) ans = 1 or less than zero: any(x(:) < 0) ans = 0