Re: Search string in cell string?

[PhilipNienhuis]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
> 
> How can you get the index of where in a cell string a specified search
> term occurs, if it does at all?
> 
> Assuming the cell string were ordered, you could binary search. But
> how can you compare strings ASCIIbetically? The strcmp function only
> gives you equality or not, not order.
> 
> So what can be done?
> 

(Hopefully I interpret your question correctly)

Many string functions operate on cell arrays too. And you can define your
own cell function.

In the dev version of strread.m Rik and I have included several examples,
mine may be a bit ugly (as I'm no guru like Rik) but They Work. 
See esp. lines 380- 570.

Moreover:

octave-3.5.0+:13> 'a' < 'b'
ans =  1
octave-3.5.0+:14> 'a' > 'b'
ans = 0

so you can directly compare characters. (It might be more neat to cast them
to e.g., int8)

Philip


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