MATLAB: How to compare 2 or more cell arrays

cell arrays

Hi, i have 2 cells(cell1 and cell2) of size 628*1 and 244*1 respectively, and i want to compare the elements of cell 1 with the elements of cell 2 and return only the matched ones from cell1 and delete the rests
 cell1{k,1}={' *tcaa-a6-2677*';'tcca-a6-2681';' *tcca-aa-3566*';............};
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 cell2{k,1}={'TCCA-A6-2671-11A-01R-1758-07';' *TCCA-A6-2677*-11A-01R-0826-07';'TCCA-AA-3520-11A-01R-0721-07'; 'TCCA-AA-3528-11A-01R-1758-07'; *TCCA-AA-3566*-01A-01R-0125-07';.................}
Hints: i tried strncmpi and length, but because of size issue i get confused about which Command statement is better in my case.

Best Answer

After removing the asterisks, space characters, and fixing the first element of C1, this seems to do the job:
 >> C1 = {'tcca-a6-2677';'tcca-a6-2681';'tcca-aa-3566'};
 >> C2 = {'TCCA-A6-2671-11A-01R-1758-07';'TCCA-A6-2677-11A-01R-0826-07';'TCCA-AA-3520-11A-01R-0721-07';'TCCA-AA-3528-11A-01R-1758-07';'TCCA-AA-3566-01A-01R-0125-07'};
 >> fun = @(s)any(strncmpi(s,C2,numel(s)));
 >> out = C1(cellfun(fun,C1))
 out =
   'tcca-a6-2677'
   'tcca-aa-3566'
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