Putting 2 variables in an if loop

Hey I'm trying to build an if loop and instead of repeating the same line over and over again I wanted to see if there is anyway of puttigs on variable equal to two values (in my case names). I tried putting the names in brackets but it gives me an answer = logical 0 whoch I do not want I want only the fprintf statement to appear after entering the variable value. Please let me know if you have a solution

Answer 1

[DGM]

Doing direct comparison with strings isn't really going to work that way; certainly not with that syntax. A string is just a character vector. If you try to compare two vectors of unequal length for equality, you'll get an error. If you do this:

D = ['A','B','C'];

Then that's just going to concatenate them. D is 'ABC'.

Use strcmp(), strcmpi(), ismember() etc for handling string comparison. If you're going to test a lot of cases, you can just avoid all that and do this.

switch mystring
    case 'this'
        % do a thing
    case 'that'
        % do a different thing
    case {'another','thing'}
        % do something else
end