comparison the data and ploting it

i have these arrays in work space

names  332*2 cell
daily_cases 332*430 double

note :

names include countries names in first column and states in 2nd column

daily_cases indclude daily covid cases

important ; for example 'canada ' is located in location (1;20) in names cell and its data is located in 'daily_cases' at same location (1;20)

i want the function which take random country name as input the make the plot of dailycases vs country name

function(country, names,dailycases)

end

it should be generic so that it plot the data of any country which i enter while calling

Answer 1

[Jan]

function ShowCases(country, names, dailycases)
index = any(strcmpi(names, country), 2);  % 1st or 2nd column
if any(index)
    plot(dailycases(index, :));
else
    fprintf(2, 'No matching country found for: "%s"\n', country);
end
end

[Muhammad]

index that is in line 2 has double format

i want it in array want

index{..........} so how can i