# Stepping thru a matrix
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stepping-thru-a-matrix/91956
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [December 21, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stepping-thru-a-matrix/91956 "2022-12-21T14:43:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jdarnold](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jdarnold)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stepping-thru-a-matrix/91956/1 "2022-12-21T14:43:08Z")
I’m just wondering if there is a easier / better way to step thru the elements of a 10x2 matrix, where I want to get each part of the x2 as an element:
```julia
testmatrix = zeros(Int,10,2)
for tidx = 1:size(testmatrix)[1]
t1 = testmatrix[tidx,1]
t2 = testmatrix[tidx,2]
println("t1 = $t1 t2 = $t2")
end
```
In this admittedly dumb example, I want to treat each part of the “x2” as a 2 element vector.
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### Author:  [@Nathan\_Boyer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nathan_Boyer)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stepping-thru-a-matrix/91956/2 "2022-12-21T15:00:59Z")
One way:
```julia
julia> M = rand(0:9, 10, 2)
10×2 Matrix{Int64}:
7 1
6 0
6 0
6 9
8 3
9 1
4 9
1 5
2 5
9 9
julia> for i in axes(M, 1)
println(M[i, :])
end
[7, 1]
[6, 0]
[6, 0]
[6, 9]
[8, 3]
[9, 1]
[4, 9]
[1, 5]
[2, 5]
[9, 9]
```
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2022, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stepping-thru-a-matrix/91956/3 "2022-12-21T15:03:30Z")
> [@jdarnold](#):
>
> I want to treat each part of the “x2” as a 2 element vector.
[`eachrow`](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/arrays/#Base.eachrow)?
```julia
julia> A = rand(5,2)
5×2 Matrix{Float64}:
0.535485 0.39958
0.185981 0.821799
0.699819 0.355746
0.796002 0.640743
0.761191 0.513014
julia> collect(eachrow(A))
5-element Vector{SubArray{Float64, 1, Matrix{Float64}, Tuple{Int64, Base.Slice{Base.OneTo{Int64}}}, true}}:
[0.5354849094718778, 0.3995795322090717]
[0.1859805121916167, 0.8217989381641213]
[0.6998186399284567, 0.35574632769553527]
[0.7960020715211013, 0.6407429528950367]
[0.7611912194497008, 0.5130138680605387]
```