How can I write a function for the below cell array comparison?

I have a huge data of cell arrays (2000*10) with each cell containing strings such as '25:20:55'.

I want to write a function that accepts 10 inputs (say '25:02:33', '58:69:88', '25:54:96', '48:58:36', '58:54:88' and so on) and looks for a match in each column corresponding to input value for that particular column (i.e. the first input data corresponds to 1st column, 2nd to 2nd column of the stored data and so on.

Answer 1

[Titus Edelhofer]

Hi Supreet,

I think this is one of the cases where a simple loop is easier than trying to do something very clever:

X = cell(2000, 10);
Y = cell(1, 10);

result = cell(1, 10);
for i=1:10
  result{i} = ismember(Y{i}, X(:,i));
end

Titus