calculate values for certain indexes

Hello,

I have a set of data and I would like to find the total time of the data only when the set number changes. The data is shown in the picture below with the calculated time. What I'm trying to do is calculate the total time when the set# increases, if it doesnt then keep the total time same as the previous value. This is what I have so far but it's not working correctly.

lastset = 1;
timeholder = 0;
inittime = time(1);
for i = 1:length(set)
    if set(i)>lastset
        totaltime(i) = time(i)+timeholder;
        timeholder = time(i);
        lastset=set(i);
    else
        totaltime(i) = time(i-1);
    end
end

Answer 1

[Max Bernstein]

I just realized part of the problem is the if line, it should be if set(i)~=lastset instead of >. Still not working quite right though

[Stephen23]

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Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

I believe this does exactly what you want. It's even vectorized as a bonus!

% Create data
setNumber = [1,1,2,2,3,3,1,1,2,2,1,1,3,3]'
theTime = [1,1.1,2,2.1,3,3.1,4,4.1,5,5.1,6,6.1,7,7.1]'
% Find out which rows we need to ignore when computing total times.
timesToIgnore = [setNumber(1); diff(setNumber)] == 0
% Zero out times for those rows.
newTimes = theTime; % Initialize copy so we don't disturb the original data.
newTimes(timesToIgnore) = 0;
% Compute total times with times of same set zeroed out.
totalTime = cumsum(newTimes)

By the way, don't use time or set or any other built-in function names as variable names.