String compare

Hi,

likely a beginners question. I have a matrix containing strings, say

A=['aa';'bb']

now I'm looking for a function f(x,string) that will do row-wise string comparison such that

f(A,'aa') leads to [1;0]

is that possible? I failed to use strcmp.

Thanks Jörg

Answer 1

[Daniel Shub]

If you can use

A = {'aa'; 'bb'}

then

strcmp(A, 'aa')

works. The cell array for A might be better because it lets you have unequal length strings.

[Jörg]

I tried that. Unfortunately it only leads to ans=0. I'm using Matlab 2009a.

[Daniel Shub]

You tried it with a cell array?

[Jörg]

Ah, that did the trick. Thanks a lot!!