MATLAB: Select rows given a condition

cellisequal

I have a big- cell variable and I want to select it, considering the first row. So for instance if I have
 A:
 1997 FD 89
 1997 GD 65
 1999 FDK 87
 2010 UY 123
I would like to get
 B:
 1997 FD 89
 1997 GD 65
I tried to use the '==1997' function but it is not working because the input is a cell. An when I use 'isequal' I get B but it's a '0x0 cell' variable. Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot!

Best Answer

Hi Maria,
you need to convert the first column into a vector
firstColumn = cell2mat(A(:,1));
rows1997 = A(firstColumn==1997, :);
Titus
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