MATLAB: Undefined function ‘contains’ for input arguments of type ‘char’

Question

Hi,

I am trying to use contains to check if string A has string B in it. Say, A = 'XYZXYZ', B = 'XY', I am using: tf = contains(A, B); But I keep getting error "Undefined function 'contains' for input arguments of type 'char'" Why?

Thanks in advance for any help. Jennifer

Answer 1

Are you using an older version of MATLAB? According to the documentation for contains, this function was introduced in version R2016b.

You might be able to use strfind instead.