Daniel@0: function [posns] = strmatch_multi(keys, strs)
Daniel@0: % STRMATCH_MULTI Find where each key occurs in list of strings.
Daniel@0: % [pos] = strmatch_multi(key, strs) where key is a string and strs is a cell array of strings
Daniel@0: % works like the built-in command sequence pos = strmatch(key, strs, 'exact'),
Daniel@0: % except that pos is the first occurrence of key in strs; if there is no occurence, pos is 0.
Daniel@0: %
Daniel@0: % [posns] = strmatch_multi(keys, strs), where keys is a cell array of strings, 
Daniel@0: % matches each element of keys. It loops over whichever is shorter, keys or strs.
Daniel@0: 
Daniel@0: if ~iscell(keys), keys = {keys}; end
Daniel@0: nkeys = length(keys);
Daniel@0: posns = zeros(1, nkeys);
Daniel@0: if length(keys) < length(strs)
Daniel@0:   for i=1:nkeys
Daniel@0:     %pos = strmatch(keys{i}, strs, 'exact');
Daniel@0:     ndx = strcmp(keys{i}, strs); % faster
Daniel@0:     pos = find(ndx);
Daniel@0:     if ~isempty(pos)
Daniel@0:       posns(i) = pos(1);
Daniel@0:     end
Daniel@0:   end
Daniel@0: else
Daniel@0:   for s=1:length(strs)
Daniel@0:     %ndx = strmatch(strs{s}, keys, 'exact');
Daniel@0:     ndx = strcmp(strs{s}, keys);
Daniel@0:     ndx = find(ndx);
Daniel@0:     posns(ndx) = s;
Daniel@0:   end
Daniel@0: end
Daniel@0: