MATLAB: How to find the type of a value inside a cell array

cellfindMATLABstringwithout a loopxlsread

I need to load only one variable from a mat file. this variable is a cell array that contains a string and a scalar. but I don't know in which order (the first place in the cell array can be a scalar or a string) how can I find which one of them is the string maybe using find? thanks
a code for example:
    % code
load('Myfavoritefile.mat','myFavoriteVar')
myFavoriteVar ={'ExampleString'  5} 
% or {5 'ExampleString'} I don't know but I only need the string
%the string is the name of the xl file I want to open
[NUMERIC,TXT,RAW]=xlsread(ExampleString)

Best Answer

Try this:
classOfElement1 = class(myFavoriteVar{1})
classOfElement2 = class(myFavoriteVar{2})
Use strcmp() to check if each one is 'double' or 'char'
TF = strcmp(classOfElement1, 'double');
TF = strcmp(classOfElement1, 'char');
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