Re: fast string searches

[Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E]]

rutiger bishop wrote:
> Does anybody know of any tricks or optimized functions
> for pattern matching in strings?

For the simple case of matching strings like you give, strcmp is implemented in 
C now (you were using strmatch, which is a .m file).

octave:1> s = { 'a', 'bc', 'd' };
octave:2> strcmp('d', s)
ans =

  0   0   1

Cell arrays of strings (like s) are a good way to store strings in Octave.
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