searching cell array of strings

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Anthony
Anthony on 23 Aug 2011
Is there a way to use the 'find' function or something like it to search a cell array of strings for a particular string and return it's location in the cell array?

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Oleg Komarov
Oleg Komarov on 23 Aug 2011
strcmp(string,cellstr)
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Jan
Jan on 23 Aug 2011
And: find(strcmp(string, cellstring))

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Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang on 23 Aug 2011
Or maybe strfind(), regexp();
C = {'hello' 'yes' 'no' 'goodbye'};
S='ye';
Found=strfind(C,S);
Ind=~cellfun('isempty',Found);
C(Ind)

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