replacing some string variables by others; a small problem

Dear all,

i have the following problem

I want to replace the elements of EER with the corresponding elements from EER1

where 

 EER={datebeg  '01/01/2009'  '01/07/2009'  };
EER1={'1' '2'  '3'  '4'};

 and

datebeg =

    '01/11/2009' 

    Unfortunately the '01/11/2009'  is not replace by '1' and I need
    to maintain the code as it is; that is using datebeg  in EER instead of  
    '01/11/2009' 

    Is there a way of doing this?

I use the following code for the replacement

 isAW   = strcmp(raw(:, 1), 'EE');
 AWtext = raw(isAW, 8);           % Only the AW rows
for k = 1:numel(EER)
  AWtext(strcmp(AWtext, EER{k})) = {EER1{k}};
end
new(isAW) = AWtext;

    thanks

[Jan]

Please post the code you use for replacing the strings. It is confusing, that EER and EER1 have a different number of elements.

[antonet]

thanks Jan. sorry for my mistake. this is the code I used

 EER={datebeg  '01/01/2009'  '01/07/2009'  };
EER1={'1' '2'  '3'  };

 isAW   = strcmp(raw(:, 1), 'EE');
 AWtext = raw(isAW, 8);           % Only the AW rows
for k = 1:numel(EER)
  AWtext(strcmp(AWtext, EER{k})) = {EER1{k}};
end
new(isAW) = AWtext;

where raw is a matrix

With thte above code I replace all the elements that I want apart from the first one

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

containers.map perhaps ?

[antonet]

Sorry I am asking but how does this function fit to the above example. Could you display some code

many thanks