Comments on: Finding Strings

By: Loren

Loren — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:01:00 +0000

Sarah-

Have you checked out strcmpi?

–Loren

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:32:43 +0000

I have a question as to how to compare strings without case sensitivity. I am currently storing strings in an array and then I need to search this array to see of the option is there. I was using ismember but that only works if the user puts it in exactly how it is in the Array. Is there another function that does what ismember does but for an array of string elements.

Thanks!

By: Loren

Loren — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:53:29 +0000

Elena-

Impressive performance boost!

–Loren

By: Elena

Elena — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:55:35 +0000

Hi Loren,

Thanks to your suggestion of using ‘ismember’ instead of looping with ‘strcmp’ I managed to reduce processing time from 6 hours to 7 seconds. Thank you!

By: Loren

Loren — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:06:26 +0000

Phoebe-

If you are looking to see if 2 strings are equal, check out the functions in the strcmp or ismember families.

–Loren

By: Phoebe

Phoebe — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:43:21 +0000

You are probably not still checking this, but this is the closest info I can find related to my question.

I am trying to compare 2 string arrays and return only the full strings (not sub strings) in common for both (comparing a list of 2 names to find the matching names). Is there a simple way to do this? I can match using single strings, but not the whole array.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

By: Loren

Loren — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:34:32 +0000

Sridhar-

There is nothing built into MATLAB for that. You’d need to write your own code for processing getting the data from the edit box and analyzing it.

–Loren

By: sridhar

sridhar — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:25:59 +0000

i meant getting a partially selected string , is there any getselected command beacuse “string” property shows entire string. how can we extract a partially selected string by the user.
let us assume a string in the edit box
st=”subject predicate noun”;
if user selects a “noun” inside editbox , and clicks a menu to perform some operation on this selection . how would program know “noun” has been selected out of “subject predicate noun”.
is there any getselected?

By: sridhar

sridhar — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:21:55 +0000

i meant getting a partially selected string , is there any getselected command

By: Loren

Loren — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:43:27 +0000

Sridhar-

You should read about handle graphics. You’ll need to get the ‘string’ value from your edit box.

–Loren