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MATLAB: struct.name type and strcmp

I have the following code:

fonts = dir('fonts')

strcmp('BELL.TTF',fonts.name)

where dir('fonts') returns a 33x1 struct where each entry has name (string), date, and a few other things. I can't figure out what type fonts.name is (if it's a cell array or what), and my end goal is to be able to use strcmp to compare across all of the names.

Solution

  • fonts.name is 33 separate character arrays. You want to combine these into a cell array so that you can use it with strcmp.

    In code:

    fonts = dir('fonts');
%# use curly brackets to combine the 33 strings into a cell array
tf = strcmp('BELL.TTF',{fonts.name})

    tf is a logical array with 1 wherever fonts.name is equal to 'BELL.TTF'