Does this character vector match any of the following character vectors?

How can I check to see if a particular character vector or string matches anything in a list of other character vectors/strings? For example, if the current month is June, July, or August, I want to call the current season Summer; if not, I want to call the current season notSummer. I tried this:

if strcmp(currentMonth,'June'||'July'||'August')
    currentSeason = 'Summer'
else
    currentSeason = 'NotSummer'
end

But it gives me the error message "Operands to the || and && operators must be convertible to logical scalar values."

I also tried it with just commas instead of ||, but it said I had too many input arguments for strcmp().

How can I compare strings in this way?

Thank you.

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

You could use cell arrays. E.g., use

ismember(currentMonth,{'June','July','August'})

instead of

strcmp(currentMonth,'June'||'July'||'August')

Or if you wanted a case insensitive check

any(strcmpi(currentMonth,{'June','July','August'}))

[Sarah]

That is perfect, thank you James!