Extracting specific data from table

Hi, hope you doing well.

I have a 1698997x4 table in matlab. The first column is the variable "ID" and it stores the name of multiple sensors, for example "ILM_I12" or "APM_50" . I need to extract from the table all the rows where the ID is a match for "ILM".

I tried the following code but got the the error "Undefined function 'eq' for input arguments of type 'cell'."

SensorILM = valores_sensores(valores_sensores.ID == 'ILM_*',:)

Feel free to suggest other methods, if you dont think this is the right one. Any help is appreciated.

Thank you!

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

idx = startsWith(valores_sensores.ID,'ILM_'); % or CONTAINS
SensorILM = valores_sensores(idx,:)

[Tiago André]

It worked, thanks!