MATLAB: Selecting multiple strinfs of variables

Question

Dear all,

I have produced the following output

county interst rate

England b1

England b1

England b1

England b1

England b2

England b2

England b2

England b3

England b3

England b4

England b4

The above table says that for England we have different types of interest rate. I would like to select the values of interest rates that correspond to both bi and b2.

If I use the command

strcmp(mdata1(:,2),'b1')

 i select only b1. But I want to select both b1 and b2 Any suggestions?

thanks in advance,

stef

Answer 1

Hi Stef,

I guess you are looking for ismember:

ismember(mdata(:,2), {'b1' 'b2'})

Titus