Question

version: Matlab 2009a

I am generating a vector of size <1×116286> using randsrc() function. Since I am again adding it to the matrix of same size but of uint8 type, I am doing as follows –

l=typecast(randsrc(1,v(2)),'uint8');

Now, Matlab has changed the returned a vector of elements – [240,63,0] instead of [-1,1], with the size of <1×930288 uint8>. This is expected as double and uint8 has different size, but I want a vector of same size and values after type casting.

PS: I want to subtract or add ‘1’ from all trhe values on a matrix of size <1×116286>. Is there any other neat way to do this?

Answer 1

As I understand the problem, there are a couple of issues with the above:

• uint8 is an unsigned type so will not support a negative offset;
• the “typecast” function is used to reinterpret existing data, not to convert it: here you are interpreting each byte of the floating-point output of randsrc(…) as an integer.

Unfortunately I don’t have Matlab handy to test, but the following should provide something closer to what you are after:

l = int8( randsrc(1,v(2)) );