MATLAB repeat numbers based on a vector of lengths

Question

Is there a vectorised way to do the following? (shown by an example):

input_lengths = [ 1 1 1 4       3     2   1 ]
result =        [ 1 2 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 7 ]         


        

Answer 1

A fully vectorized version:

selector=bsxfun(@le,[1:max(input_lengths)]',input_lengths);
V=repmat([1:size(selector,2)],size(selector,1),1);
result=V(selector);

Downside is, the memory usage is O(numel(input_lengths)*max(input_lengths))