searching the occurances of a numeric in a cell array

my first array is :

>> a=combnk([1:5],2)

and the first row of my second array which is a cell array is

{'12341345623414374538556438835454342345'}

now what i want is to search the first row of my first array which is [4 5] and also the reverse of it [5 4] in the first row of my second array.(and then i gotta do the same for the rest of the rows of cell array) any idea how i can convert [4 5] to '45' so that i can make use of strfind for this? or any other alternative solution?

Answer 1

[Ingrid]

I think using strfind would be a good way, just use sprintf() to format your numbers into a string or use num2string() twice if it are really only two numbers

[Walter Roberson]

char([4 5]+'0')