MATLAB Programming

Characters and Strings
C =
0
Note For C programmers, this is an important difference between the
MATLAB strcmp and C strcmp()functions, where the latter returns 0 if
the two strings are the same.
The first three characters of str1 and str2 areidentical,soinvokingstrncmp
with any value up to 3 returns 1:
C = strncmp(str1, str2, 2)
C =
1
These functions work cell-by-cell on a cell array of strings. Consider the two
cell arrays of strings
A = {'pizza'; 'chips'; 'candy'};
B = {'pizza'; 'chocolate'; 'pretzels'};
Now apply the string comparison functions:
strcmp(A,B)
ans =
1
0
0
strncmp(A,B,1)
ans =
1
1
0
Comparing for Equality Using Operators
You can use MATLAB relational operators on character arrays, as long as
the arrays you are comparing have equal dimensions, or one is a scalar. For
example, you can use the equality operator (==) to determine where the
matching characters are in two strings:
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