Matlab equivalent of Python enumerate

As far as I know, there is no equivalent of enumerate in Matlab. The most common way to do this is:

for i = 1:length(foo_list)
    item = foo_list(i);
    % do stuff with i, item
end

Seems there is no equivalent in Matlab. However if you have a simple 1 x X array you can define it yourself (if you don't worry about performance):

enumerate = @(values) [1:length(values); values]

a = [6 5 4]
for i=enumerate(a)
    do something with i
end

Of course the clean way would be to wrap this inside a general toolkit and add an assert that a is indeed a 1 x X vector.

It's easy to achieve by defining a new class for the iteration:

classdef enumerate < handle
   properties(Access = private)
      IterationList;
   end
   
   methods 
       function self = enumerate(in)
           self.IterationList = in;
       end
       function [varargout] = subsref(self, S)
           item = subsref(self.IterationList,S);
           num = S.subs{2};
           out.item = item;
           out.num = num;
           varargout = {out};
       end
       function [m,n] = size(self)
           [m,n] = size(self.IterationList);
       end
   end
end

You can use it in this way:

for t = enumerate(linspace(0,1,10));
disp(['num is: ',num2str(t.num),'item is: ',num2str(t.item)]); 
end

And will get this output:

num is: 1item is: 0

num is: 2item is: 0.11111

num is: 3item is: 0.22222

num is: 4item is: 0.33333

num is: 5item is: 0.44444

num is: 6item is: 0.55556

num is: 7item is: 0.66667

num is: 8item is: 0.77778

num is: 9item is: 0.88889

num is: 10item is: 1