Finding indexes of maximum values of an array

Question

How do I find the index of the 2 maximum values of a 1D array in MATLAB? Mine is an array with a list of different scores, and I want to print the 2 highest scores.

Answer 1

To get the indices of the two largest elements: use the second output of sort to get the sorted indices, and then pick the last two:

x = [3 2 5 4 7 3 2 6 4];
[~, ind] = sort(x);
result = ind(end-1:end);

In this case,

result =
     8     5