Characters linear search

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javeed miyandad
javeed miyandad on 28 Mar 2011
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

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Andrew Newell
Andrew Newell on 28 Mar 2011
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
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Matt Fig
Matt Fig on 28 Mar 2011
if isempty(I),disp('No match found.'),end
javeed miyandad
javeed miyandad on 28 Mar 2011
thank you very much sir

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