How to count a specific string in a cell array?

I'm trying to count the number of occurrences of a word in a cell array. For example if the cell is like this:

    c = {'car' , 'tree' , 'car' , 'bag' , 'horse' , 'car' , 'tree'}

I want to count the number of occurrences of strings in the cell. For example if I search for the number of string 'water' it would result in *0*. Or if I search for the number of 'car', it would result in *3*. How can I do this?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[KSSV]

c = {'car' , 'tree' , 'car' , 'bag' , 'horse' , 'car' , 'tree'} ;

idx = strfind(c, 'car');
idx = find(not(cellfun('isempty', idx)));

N = length(idx)

[Hadi Ghahremannezhad]

Thanks a lot. It works very fine.

[KSSV]

@ Hadi Ghahremannezhad Stephen Cobeldick's answer is perfect one...

Answer 2

[Stephen23]

>> c = {'car' , 'tree' , 'car' , 'bag' , 'horse' , 'car' , 'tree'};
>> nnz(strcmp(c,'water'))
ans =
     0
>> nnz(strcmp(c,'car'))
ans =
     3

[KSSV]

+1

[Hadi Ghahremannezhad]

@KSSV This works great and simple. thanks

[BN]

Thanks from 2020, It's Amazing approach, Thank You Dear Stephen Cobeldick. +1