Assign cell array of values to cell array of names

Here's my question:

I have a cell array of names: {'a';'b';'c'} (example)

and a cell array of values: {1;0;1} (booleans in my case)

What I want to do is to assign the value to the name and just call it as a variable. Right now what I've been using is a for that looks for the value every time I need it.

If I need the value of a:

 for i=1:length(names)
   if strcmp(names{i},'a')
      value_a=value{i};
      break
   end
 end

But this takes so much time because the arrays are too long, I want that "a" contains the corresponding value.

Thank you so much!

Juan

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

names={'a';'b';'c'} 
value= {1;0;1}
idx=ismember(names,'a')
out=value(idx)

[Juan Henao]

Thank you very much, this worked for what I needed.

There are lots of things to know... awesome.

Answer 2

[Sean de Wolski]

You probably want to go with a containers.Map here:

M = containers.Map({'A';'B';'C'},1:3)
M('A')
M('B')

[Stephen23]

Or a simple structure?

[Sean de Wolski]

Or that...