how to find index of cell array?

I want to the find row number of where the elements of cell array "motors_cell" match cell array "get_motors_no_workbook2" . The row number refers to where the match occurred in the cell "get_motors_no_workbook2". This should be done for any size of "motors_cell" and for different values as well.

Note: size of "get_motors_no_workbook2" can have multiple rows but one column.

[Stephen23]

@Mohammad Abdalnasir Khalid Al-Hiyali: you asked a very similar question, which I answered:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/279788-how-to-use-regexp-in-a-more-complex-example

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Answer 1

[Adam]

doc ismember

should work for this I think. e.g.

a = { 'a', 'b', 'c' };
b = { 'b', 'd', 'a', 'a', 'h', 'b' };

[~, idx] = ismember( b, a );

will give, for each element in b the index of the same element in a, if one exists. From that you should be able to get what you want.