MATLAB: Use of strmatch to find a string NOT at the start of a line

Question

Hi I have some data:

1. PeakType Center Height Area FWHM parameters%_1 Linear x x x x 74.6852 -33.1093%_2 PseudoVoigt 0.728123 49.5433 1.78981 %_2 PseudoVoigt 0.728123 49.5433 1.78981

and this is stored is a cell array (in this case with a size of 4 and called 'everything'). now i can do the following to find the index of all occurrences of %_2:

            findName = '%_2';
            occurence = strmatch(findName,everything);

However what i need to do is simply find the index of where the string PseudoVoigt occurs (as it will not always start with %_2). I cannot use:

            findName = 'PseudoVoigt';
            occurence = strmatch(findName,everything);

Is there anyway i can do this without resorting to matlabs other strng matching functions and loops? If not then i think it would be very useful if this function could have an option to allow you to search in this way.

Thanks

Matt

Answer 1

Use strfind

idx = strfind(everything,'PseudoVoigt')
idx = ~cellfun('isempty',idx)

idx is logical true whenever it finds PseudoVoigt in any part of the string.