diff core/tools/substrcellfind.m @ 0:e9a9cd732c1e tip

first hg version after svn
author wolffd
date Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:05:51 +0000
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+function [idx, strpos] = substrcellfind(strdb, str, findAll)
+% [idx, strpos] = substrcellfind(strdb, str)
+% 
+% finds a string within an cell array of strings
+% only outputs the first occurence, unless
+% findAll is set to true
+%
+% substrcellfind is NOT CASE sensitive
+
+if nargin < 3
+    findAll = 0;
+end
+
+idx = [];
+strpos = [];
+for i = 1:length(strdb)
+    
+    % search string in cell db
+    tpos = strfind(lower(char(strdb{i})), lower(str));
+    
+    if ~isempty(tpos)
+        
+        strpos(end+1) = tpos;
+        
+         if ~findAll
+
+            idx = i;
+            return;
+        else
+            idx(end+1) = i;
+        end
+    end
+end
+
+% if isempty(idx) 
+%     idx = -1;
+% end