String Matching in an If Statement

If I want to compare strings (2 tables) sequentially in an if statement, what command caters for this?

A logical array won't work as there are multiple strings to compare (differing in number between datasets) from the first array to the other.

Eg.

Table 1.

Col 1 has string names. Col 2 has set values of the double type for each string name.

Table 2.

Col 1 has strings to be matched. Col 2 has different values of the type double to be added.

Note: Col 2's strings are in random order.

Answer 1

[Peter Jarosi]

I recommend reading more about it depending on your problem but something like this:

Table3 = outerjoin(Table1, Table2, 'Keys', {'Col1'});

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/outerjoin.html

[Guillaume]

A plain join or an innerjoin might also be the answer. but I agree with Peter, you'r most likely looking at some sort of join.

[Peter Jarosi]

Thank you Guillaume!

I think that Justin has to try different join functions with different options and investigate the result and one of these combinations may help.