Or statement for input arguments of type 'cell'

Hi, I want to compare two arguments of cell type which I read as readtable from a csv file (with header). I need to use Or statement but I get error that is not possible to do that.

 T=readtable('r.csv') 
 if strcmp(T.first | T.second , 'NONE')==0
 ....
end

error: Undefined operator '|' for input arguments of type 'cell'

can you please me help me?

Answer 1

[Rik]

The ismember function should help you out here, or you can use multiple calls to strcmp:

T=readtable('r.csv');
if ~(   strcmp(T.first, 'NONE') || ...
        strcmp(T.second, 'NONE') )
    ...
end

[Jan]

+1. If T.first and T.second are cell arrays, an any or all might be wanted. Or perhaps:

index = ~(strcmp(T.first, 'NONE') || strcmp(T.second, 'NONE'));

[hoda kazemzadeh]

Thanks for your reply.