is it possible for if/ else if statements to accept multiple string inputs?

if solid == string('yes , YES')
    disp('True')
elseif solid  == string('no , NO')
    disp('False')
end

I'm honestly kinda lost. I know that the if and elseif staments are working with simple yes and no sting inputs but when i try and use multiple strings it throws an error. if someone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly appriciated.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

if ismember(solid, {'yes', 'YES'})

but consider instead

if strcmpi(solid, 'yes')

the i in strcmpi means case-insensitive -- similar to as-if you had compared

if strcmp(lower(solid), lower('yes'))

(except possibly with different behaviour on some edge cases involving unusual characters such as ß whose lower-case form is different than you might expect.)