MATLAB: Searching string in table

searching in table

I like to find word in a column and if the word is found in the column (let´s say column 3). The value in column 4 should be changed into the value of column 5. How should you do this?

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mask = ismember(YourTable{:,3}, TheWord);
YourTable(mask,4) = YourTable(mask,5);

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YourTable.NewVariableName = string(nan(height(YourTable, 1)));
mask = contains(YourTable{:,3}, "house");
YourTable.NewVariableName(mask) = YourTable{mask,:3};

MATLAB: Searching files

yes it is possible to search files.

you can write code as you like. For example I want to search file 'test.txt' in current folder c:/matlab/ then I can do like this.

files = dir('c:/matlab/*.txt');

now files contains all files with txt format. now you can loop for your file.

there are many other ways. This is just example to show you.

You can also try function exist.

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