Cell Arrays causing problem with Subsetting

I am trying to create a subset of a table like so (which works fine)

cond1 = "random_name"
table2= (table1.col1 == cond1,:)

Now, instead, when I define cond1 as the first element from another table (which has only one column with only strings) like so:

cond2 = table3{1,:}

the new string has only single quotation marks:

'random_name'

This however causes the following error:

table2= (table1.col2 == cond1,:)

Operator '==' is not supported for operands of type cell. Now I could used strcmp instead:

table2= (strcmp (table1.col2 ,cond1),:)

But I am wondering if there is a simpler solution to this problem?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Like it said you need to be using contains() or strcmpi() instead of ==.

No simpler way.

Attach your table in a .mat file if you need more help so we can try additional things.

[Metin Akyol]

Got it, thank you, I appreciate the help. I'll stick to strcmp then.

For my reproducable version, Table3 itself is pretty simple, just 1X1 size and contains only that one string.