Determine continent given the country

I have a list of countries and I'm looking for a quick way to get the continent for each one of them.

Any idea?

Thanks

[John D'Errico]

What have you tried? Lots of easy things would work, from a switch statement, to regexp on a cell array, strmatch (ok, strncmp), ismember, etc. Why not try writing some code using any of the above? If you have a problem with what you wrote, then ask. But this is an easy problem, so make an effort.

Answer 1

[Adam]

If you have the list of continents then

doc containers.Map

should do the job.

If you don't have the list of continents then I have no idea where Matlab itself is expected to acquire the information from unless one of the toolboxes has this functionality.