tomwalters@0: function yes=hasunit(ub,unitname);
tomwalters@0: 
tomwalters@0: units=ub.units;
tomwalters@0: for i=1:length(units)
tomwalters@0:     unname=getname(units{i};
tomwalters@0:     if strcmp(unname,unitname)
tomwalters@0:         yes=1;
tomwalters@0:         return
tomwalters@0:     end
tomwalters@0: end
tomwalters@0: % if still here then there was no exact match. Take the first oen with a
tomwalters@0: % close match
tomwalters@0: for i=1:length(units)
tomwalters@0:     unname=getname(units{i};
tomwalters@0:     if ~isemtpy(strfind(unname,unitname))
tomwalters@0:         yes=1;
tomwalters@0:         return
tomwalters@0:     end
tomwalters@0: end
tomwalters@0: 
tomwalters@0: yes=0;