Is there a dsearchn equivalent for strings?

I have two cell arrays, one is the array I want to find indices of multiple strings. Say q = { 'A', 'B' } and p = { 'H', 'F', ..., 'Z' }. Is there a function that finds the strings and returns their indices like ans = [ 12, 3 ] ? Or the only way is to use a for loop and find(strcmp(...)) which doesn't seem very efficient?

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

I think you would have to do it one value at a time.

find(contains(p,q(1)))

There are several functions you could use

• strfind
• ismember
• contains

See this post for more ideas.

[Reza Yahyaei]

I don't remember what happened that I forgot to follow this question (probably my computer got broken) but thanks a lot for your answer.