MATLAB: Converting name of month to number

monthnumber

I have a cellmatrix where there are two columns wth name of months. I want to replace the name of months by serial numbers from 1 to 12.
How can I do it in matlab 2016a?I am new to matlab & I tried using strcmp, strrep & even with switch.
Please suggest.
1)
 if strcmp(z1(n,5),month(m,1))
             z1{n,5} = strrep(z1{n,5},'z1{n,5}','m')
             break;
         else z1{n,5} = z1{n,5};
 end
2) 
str = z1{n,5};
switch (str)
case ('January')
z1{n,5} = 1;
.
.
.
case ('December')
z1{n,5} = 12;
end
None worked correctly.

Best Answer

[tf, idx] = ismember(z1(:,5), {'January', 'February', 'March'})
now tf(nn) is true if z1{nn,5} is matched and idx(nn) is the month number if tf(nn) is true. No loop needed.
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