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Get indices of string occurrences in cell-array

I have a cell array that contains a long list of strings. Most of the strings are in duplicates. I need the indices of instances of a string within the cell array.

I tried the following:

[bool,ind] = ismember(string,var);

Which consistently returns scalar ind while there are clearly more than one index for which the contents in the cell array matches string.

How can I have a list of indices that points to the locations in the cell array that contains string?

Solution

  • As an alternative to Divakar's comment, you could use strcmp. This works even if some cell doesn't contain a string:

    >> strcmp('aaa', {'aaa', 'bb', 'aaa', 'c', 25, [1 2 3]})
ans =
     1     0     1     0     0     0