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How do you sort and efficiently find elements in a cell array (of strings) in Octave?

Is there built-in functionality for this?

Solution

  • Yes check this: http://www.obihiro.ac.jp/~suzukim/masuda/octave/html3/octave_36.html#SEC75

    a = ["hello"; "world"];
c = cellstr (a)
     ⇒ c =
         {
           [1,1] = hello
           [2,1] = world
         }
>>> cellidx(c, 'hello')
ans =  1

>>> cellidx(c, 'world')
ans =  2