find the position of a specific cell entry

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Hello!
I have a cell array that looks like this B = {'AFG'; 'ALB'; 'AGO';'USA'; 'GER'; 'AUS'}
Now I would like to find the position of 'USA' in the cell array, so that I have pos_us = 4 (just as an example).
Could somebody please help me? I tried the "find" command but somehow it doesn't work for me...(or I used it wrong)
Thanks a lot! Birgit
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Jan
Jan on 21 Nov 2012
It is helpful, if you post the code you have created yet. It is easier and useful to fix the bug in the code, than to post new code.

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Harshit
Harshit on 21 Nov 2012
[truefalse, index] = ismember('USA', B)

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Jan
Jan on 21 Nov 2012
Faster than ismember and it finds multiple occurrences also:
index = find(strcmp(B, 'USA'));

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