how to find the position in a string array

attributes={'aaaa','bbbb','cccc','dddd' };
str='cccc';

how to find position 3 ?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Read the documentation in ismember()

[Shown]

thanks, I got it.

[a,b]=ismember(str,attributes)
b

[Jan]

I'd prefer this instead:

index = find(strcmp(attributes, str))