Help with comparing strings from cells

Why does this come out as false?

>> A{1,5}

ans =

  1×1 cell array

    {'FIRING'}

>> isequal(A{1,5},'FIRING')

ans =

  logical

   0

[Stephen23]

"Why does this come out as false?"

Note the difference:

{'Hello'} % what you actually have

ans = 1×1 cell array
    {'Hello'}

'Hello' % what you think you have

ans = 'Hello'

You have nested cell arrays, so even after curly brace indexing into the outer cell array you still have the innner cell array.

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

A{1,5} itself is a cell. Do the following

class(A{1,5})
isequal(char(A{1,5}),'FIRING')
A{1,5}{1}