Using ismember on vector with strings

Hi,

I am wonderinh whether I can write something like this:

If any(ismember(result , [" nafor", "kform", "acet"]))

Answer 1

[meghannmarie]

if you are trying to match string to string, try this:

if any(contains([' nafor','kform','acet'],result))

[Muazma Ali]

as I have written I am dealing with string vectors here, not single string.

The vector may contain one of the mentioned strings that the if statement has to investigate

[meghannmarie]

Maybe I do not undertsand your question, this gives me a true answer for your if statement to investigate.

result = ["kform","acet","other"];
if any(contains({' nafor','kform','acet'},result))
    ...
end

[Muazma Ali]

Thanks I understand it now.

[Stephen23]

Note that [] is a concatenation operator, so this code:

[' nafor','kform','acet']

is just a complex way of writing this:

' naforkformacet'

Perhaps you actually intended to define strings, rather than character vectors?

[Muazma Ali]

No i was thinking of character vectors and I got my answer yesterday that I accepted :)