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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I have a simple task to split a element of a matrix into rows where remaining columns are duplicated. I have achieved that with loops.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am sure there is an efficient way to do it using matrix functions. Can you please help?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The data contains both numbers and strings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">the column 6 and 7 has equal numbers of elements delimited by '~'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Given Matrix<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1 2 3 4 5 a~b~c~d 111~222~333~444<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Output after processing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1 2 3 4 5 a 111<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1 2 3 4 5 b 222<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1 2 3 4 5 c 333<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1 2 3 4 5 d 444<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">4 5 6 7 6 e 555<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">4 5 6 7 6 f 666<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">4 5 6 7 6 g 777<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">4 5 6 7 6 h 888<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">4 5 6 7 6 i 999<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">8 9 10 11 12 j 112<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">8 9 10 11 12 m 445<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
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<b>Mohamed Ikbal Nacer<br>
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Engineering of Systems (ETAS/ESY) <br>
Tel. +49 711 3423-0 | Fax +49 711 3423-300 | <a href="mailto:fixed-term.MohamedIkbal.Nacer@etas.com">
<span style="color:blue">fixed-term.MohamedIkbal.Nacer@etas.com</span></a> </span>
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