find the position of a specific cell entry

Hello!

I have a cell array that looks like this B = {'AFG'; 'ALB'; 'AGO';'USA'; 'GER'; 'AUS'}

Now I would like to find the position of 'USA' in the cell array, so that I have pos_us = 4 (just as an example).

Could somebody please help me? I tried the "find" command but somehow it doesn't work for me...(or I used it wrong)

Thanks a lot! Birgit

[Jan]

It is helpful, if you post the code you have created yet. It is easier and useful to fix the bug in the code, than to post new code.

Answer 1

[Harshit]

 [truefalse, index] = ismember('USA', B)

[Birgit]

thank you very much! worked perfectly! :-)

Answer 2

[Jan]

Faster than ismember and it finds multiple occurrences also:

index = find(strcmp(B, 'USA'));

[Birgit]

even better! :-)