Convert cell of strings to numbers
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Hallo, On the one hand I have a cell of strings (with around 400 elements) and on the other hand in a loop I have another element (different each time) so I have to find the position of that element at the big array each time. Which is really slow.... so my intention is to convert the cell to numbers (the other string as well) and then just find in the array of number one number.
Is that possible?
Thanks in advance!
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Azzi Abdelmalek
on 25 Feb 2015
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek
on 25 Feb 2015
Can you post a short example? and post the code you are using
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Guillaume
on 25 Feb 2015
Neither the ismember nor the indexDictionary indirection is necessary:
aux = find(strcmp(dictionary, value), 1);
In all likelyhood ismember dispatches to strcmp when given strings, so bypass the middleman which you don't need in your case.
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Azzi Abdelmalek
on 25 Feb 2015
str = {'a' 'b' 'c' 'd' 'e' 'f'}
w='c'
out=find(ismember(str,w))
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