How to assign values to a MATLAB matrix on the diagonal?

Question

Suppose I have an NxN matrix A, an index vector V consisting of a subset of the numbers 1:N, and a value K, and I want to do this:

 for i = V
     A(i,i) = K         


        

Answer 1

I'd use sub2ind and pass the diagonal indices as both x and y parameters:

A = zeros(4)
V=[2 4]

idx = sub2ind(size(A), V,V)
% idx = [6, 16]

A(idx) = 1

% A =
% 0     0     0     0
% 0     1     0     0
% 0     0     0     0
% 0     0     0     1