MATLAB: Strcmp: compare a string with a set of strings

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I have a table 'test'

month temperature
---
January 
February

—

I want to create a new variable called 'season'. I want to define

spring={January, February, March}

and I want to write things like

strcmp(test.month(1),spring)==1

that is, I want to use compare one string with a set of strings and to return 1 if the string is equal to one of the set of strings. Please advise.

Best Answer

IsSpring=ismember('January',{'January','Feburary','March'})

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MATLAB: Strcmp help

Like Fangjun said, ismember(),intersect() or setdiff() may be useful.

% Make a cell array of 10 short strings
firstSet = cellstr(char(randi(26,10,4)+96));
% And a second array using some of the first set mixed with other randoms
secondSet = cat(1, firstSet([2,7,9]), cellstr(char(randi(26,10,4)+96)));
% Randomise the order of this second set
secondSet = secondSet(randperm(length(secondSet)));
% Find matches
[firstMatch, firstMatchLocs] = ismember(firstSet,secondSet);
cell2print = cat(1, firstSet(firstMatch)', num2cell([find(firstMatch)'; firstMatchLocs(firstMatch)']));
fprintf('(%s), found at first index %d matches second index %d\n', cell2print{:})
fprintf('The following firstSet entries did not match the secondSet:\n')
cell2print = cat(1, firstSet(~firstMatch)', num2cell(find(~firstMatch)'));
fprintf('(%s) at index %d\n', cell2print{:})

MATLAB: How to assign multiple strings to single variable

Try

>> jan = arrayfun( @(num) sprintf('jan_%4d',num), (1958:2018), 'uni',false );
>> jan(1:3)
ans =
  1×3 cell array
    {'jan_1958'}    {'jan_1959'}    {'jan_1960'}

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