Match the entries ?

Hello,

I want to match the entries in a cell and a double. The cell contains the name and the double contains the number. Kindly have a look into it. Many thanks !

Answer 1

[dpb]

Look at categorical for your name variable and then either use "==" or the string matching functions such as matches for multiple locations...in isolation it's hard to know exactly what the use case is, but

tM=array2table(match,'NewVariableNames',{'Name','Value'});      % turn it into a table
tM.Name=categorical(tM.Name);                                   % and categorical name variable
namesFind={'NameOne','NameTwo'};                                % set a group of names to find somehow
ix=matches(tM.Name,namesFind);                                  % the indices of the matches
tM.Value(ix)                    % display the Values of those rows in table...
tM(ix,:)                        % the whole table of those rows...

Obviously the general ideas can be modified as needed to match the specific desires wanted...