making new objocts out of the content of a cell vector

Hello!

I am everything else than an expert in Matlab, but I hope that my explanation still makes sense to you. My problem is the following:

I have a vector that looks like this:

B = {'USA' 'GER' 'JAP'...}'; (it is actually 110 country codes

now I want to assign each country code a number like: USA = 1; GER = 2; JAP = 3; ... (keeping the same order as in the vector)

Is there a quick way of doing this?? I would be very glad if I don't have to write 110 country codes by hand!

Thaaaaank you very much!!

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

It sounds like you might want to use a containers.Map object.

doc containers.Map

And an example:

cm = containers.Map({'USA';'GER';'JAP'},[1;2;3]);

And a sanity check, is 'USA' number 1?

cm('USA')

You betcha!

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

B = {'USA' 'GER' 'JAP'}
B=[B;num2cell(1:numel(B))]