Remove a column from a matrix in GNU Octave

Question

In GNU Octave, I want to be able to remove specific columns from a matrix. In the interest of generality. I also want to be able to remove specific rows from a matrix.

Answer 1

How to remove multiple columns in octave:

How to remove columns 2 and 4:

columns_to_remove = [2 4];
matrix(:,columns_to_remove)=[]

Illustrated:

mymatrix = eye(5)
mymatrix =

   1   0   0   0   0
   0   1   0   0   0
   0   0   1   0   0
   0   0   0   1   0
   0   0   0   0   1



columns_to_remove = [2 4];

mymatrix(:,columns_to_remove)=[]


mymatrix =

   1   0   0
   0   0   0
   0   1   0
   0   0   0
   0   0   1