Characters linear search

sir i need to store characters like (man cat red blue) in 2X2 matrix and then i need to perform linear search , that is if i give man it must result man is first character please help in coding

Answer 1

[Andrew Newell]

You can use cell arrays and string comparisons to do this:

>> A = {'man', 'cat'; 'red', 'blue'}'
A = 

    'man'    'red' 
    'cat'    'blue'
>> i = find(strcmp('man',A));

This gives the indices so that

A{i}

returns

ans =

man

( edited to respond to comment )

[javeed miyandad]

thank you sir

i want to have single value

means it showing i=1, j=1

it must show just 1

ie for man- 1

cat -2

red-3 red -4

sir

[javeed miyandad]

thank you sir i got output

sir if i give like

i = find(strcmp('women',A));

since women is not there in A

i need to disply result like 'element is not found'

how can i do sir

[Matt Fig]

if isempty(I),disp('No match found.'),end

[javeed miyandad]

thank you very much sir