Use a vector as an index to a matrix

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Using the function sub2ind to create a linear index is the typical solution to this problem, as shown in this closely-related question. You could also compute a linear index yourself instead of calling sub2ind.

However, your case may be simpler than those in the other questions I linked to. If you’re only ever indexing a single point with your current_point vector (i.e. it’s just an n-element vector of subscripts into your n-dimensional matrix), then you can use a simple solution where you convert current_point to a cell array of subscripts using the function num2cell and use it to create a comma-separated list of indices. For example:

current_point = [1 2 3 ...];        % A 1-by-n array of subscripts
subCell = num2cell(current_point);  % A 1-by-n cell array of subscripts
output_matrix(subCell{:}) = val;    % Update the matrix point

The operation subCell{:} creates the equivalent of typing subCell{1}, subCell{2}, ..., which is the equivalent of typing current_point(1), current_point(2), ....

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