Question

I’m trying to insert a value to a vector at specific indices, specified in another vector, and then displacing the other values accordingly.

E.g.

Vector=[1 2 3 4 5] %vector of data
Idx=[2 4] %Indices at which to insert a value

Value to insert is X

NewVector=[1 X 2 X 3 4 5]

Is there some straightforward way to do that, preferably avoiding a loop?

Answer 1

Vector=1:5;  
Idx=[2 4];
c=false(1,length(Vector)+length(Idx));
c(Idx)=true;
result=nan(size(c));
result(~c)=Vector;
result(c)=42

result =

     1    42     2    42     3     4     5

If you wanted the new values inserted as in your deleted comment, do this:

 c(Idx+(0:length(Idx)-1))=true;