license plate recognition- need to compare with data stored in .mat file

My current project is automatic license plate recognition by using video processing for private resident. Only registered license plate are allowed to enter the gate. Currently, I reached extraction section and the character come out exactly in the cell from the video. The problem is, I need to compare the extraction words with a data stored in .mat file. I don't know how to compare the OCR result with the .mat file. Example is :

Extracted character - SXC983UY

Expected result after comparing - SXC983UY is Registered!!!

Can anyone help me to solve my problem?.

Answer 1

[Thorsten]

Load the .mat file. Suppose it contains a cell string of all valid licences, use

 if any(strcmp(valid_licences, current_licence))
   disp('Registered')
 end

[fikhri izwan]

Thanks for the answer Thorsten. Can you show me how to create the .mat file with the stored data same as my example?.

[Thorsten]

I understood that you already have a .mat file. Do you have a list of the valid registered license plates?

[fikhri izwan]

My programme can execute as I desired based on your suggestion. Thank you so much Thorsten. Really appreciate the answer. Thank you so much once again. :)