Finding the Index of My String as Part of a Cell
To find my string as pattern matching/part of the string, we can use the contains a () function which can then, be passed to the find() function to get the indices.
Syntax:
indices = find(contain(array,string))
Example 2:
Matlab
% MATLAB Array code arr = {'geeks','for','geeks','geek'}; % Converting to cell arrayarr=cell(arr); %The string to be matchesstr='gee'; % Getting indicesindices = find(contains(arr,str)) |
Output:
As it can be verified that the string ‘gee’ appears in cells 1, 3, and 4.
Find Index of Cells Containing My String in MATLAB
Cell Arrays in MATLAB are a type of array that store data in the form of cells. The benefit of using these cell arrays is that they can store data of different types as cells within a cell array only. In this article, we will see how to find a given string in a cell array.
Firstly, we shall check whether the given cell array contains all strings or not. This can be done by the following function:
iscellstr(<cell array>)
It will return 1 if it contains all strings else, 0.
Example 1:
Matlab
% MATLAB arrayarr = {'geeks','for','geeks','geek'} |
Output:
As it can be seen that all elements of the above array contain all strings so, we shall move ahead.
Now, we can find a string in two manners:
- Part of a string cell.
- Exact matches a string cell.
We shall see both these cases and how to do them.