Re: Search string in cell string?

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2011/12/6 William Krekeler <address@hidden>:

> It took me awhile to figure this out some time ago. You may have to
> modify a little for you application. Example, depending upon your
> input the {} may not be needed. Note, this works in ML, I'm pretty
> sure it should also work in Octave.
>
> indexes = find( cellfun( 'isempty', regexpi( {cellStringArray}, matchString ) 
> ) == 0 );

Well, for this approach, this also works:

     idx = find(cellfun(@(x) strcmp(x, match_string), cell_string))

which seems simpler to me. However, I should have been more specific.
Suppose you have a large ordered dictionary, where binary search is
possible. How can you do binary search with strings?

- Jordi G. H.