ismember error

Hi,

x0=find(ismember(A,B)==1) is giving me error ??? Error using ==> cell.ismember at 28 Input must be cell arrays of strings.

A is a cell array that has the following format: '580135' '803111' '803111' '803111' '373298' '373298'

Bis a 1x1 cell wit the following format 377298;

I don't know why A has '' and B doesn't ,which could be the source of error.

Answer 1

[Paulo Silva]

It works just fine in this example, you also don't need the ==1 in the find argument.

A={'580135' '803111' '803111' '803111' '377298' '373298' '373298'}
B={'377298'}
find(ismember(A,B))

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Please clarify whether the content of B{1} is numeric or a string. It would need to be a string for this purpose.

Is this an example, with more values of B to be added later, or are you looking to find B within A? If you are looking to find B within A then you would use ismember(B,A)

The == 1 is redundant with ismember() as it is all 0 or 1 anyhow. find(ismember(A,B))

[joseph Frank]

B sometimes is a number and sometimes is a string, find(ismember(A,B))is what i need but it gives the above mentioned error

[Jan]

@Joseph: Then ISMEMBER is *not* what you need. It cannot compare strings with numbers. What do you expect as result of such a comparison?