Finding zero crossing that are going positive and zero crossing that are going negative

Question

I have a signal that I would like to copy when it:

1) starts at zero crossing going positive

2) copy a set number of points (like 8000)

Answer 1

Here's the test code in-case someone else has a similar question

%zero crossing testing  (find zero upward, copy fs 4000, find next zero upward.
clear all, clc, tic, clf;
n=16000
t=linspace(0,2*pi,n);
y=cos (6*t)+sin(4*t);

find_zero = diff(sign(y));
indx_up = find(find_zero>0); %find all upward going zeros
indx_down = find(find_zero<0); %find all downward going zeros
new_y=[];

fs_range_wanted=indx_up(1,1)+4000; %starts from first zero adds sample size wanted
new_y=[y(indx_up(1,1):fs_range_wanted)]; %may have to minus 1
ii=0;
while (find_zero(1,fs_range_wanted+ii)  ~= 2);  %do while not going dwn and append 
    ii=ii+1
    y_pt_loc=fs_range_wanted+ii %what is the location of the point
    new_y = [new_y, y(1,fs_range_wanted+ii)]; %append points
end


subplot(3,1,1);plot(y);title('Original Signal')
subplot(3,1,2);plot(new_y);title('New signal')
subplot(3,1,3);plot(find_zero);title('Zeros-Pos-Neg')