matlab diagnal,Diagonal matrix in matlab

A little hackish, but here it goes:

N = 7; % matrix size

v = [11 22 33]; % row vector containing the diagonal values

w = [0 v(end:-1:1)];

result = w(max(numel(v)+1-abs(bsxfun(@minus, 1:N, (1:N).')),1))

This gives

result =

11 22 33 0 0 0 0

22 11 22 33 0 0 0

33 22 11 22 33 0 0

0 33 22 11 22 33 0

0 0 33 22 11 22 33

0 0 0 33 22 11 22

0 0 0 0 33 22 11

To understand how it works, see some intermediate steps:

>> abs(bsxfun(@minus, 1:N, (1:N).'))

ans =

0 1 2 3 4 5 6

1 0 1 2 3 4 5

2 1 0 1 2 3 4

3 2 1 0 1 2 3

4 3 2 1 0 1 2

5 4 3 2 1 0 1

6 5 4 3 2 1 0

>> max(numel(v)+1-abs(bsxfun(@minus, 1:N, (1:N).')),1)

ans =

4 3 2 1 1 1 1

3 4 3 2 1 1 1

2 3 4 3 2 1 1

1 2 3 4 3 2 1

1 1 2 3 4 3 2

1 1 1 2 3 4 3

1 1 1 1 2 3 4