how to compare array with matlab

Question

I would like to comapre two arrays of strings how could I affect the following values to a,b,c,d , when I try as below, I go

Answer 1

Mistake 1:

= is the assignment operator.

The comparison operator is ==.

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Mistake 2:

MATLAB arrays don't generally hold strings. They hold numbers or single characters.

>> b = ['a','0','10','20']

b =

a01020

To see why [a,b,c,d] = ['a','0','10','20'] doesn't work, consider this:

>> [a,b,c,d] = 'a01020'
??? Too many output arguments.

You're trying to put six characters into four buckets. Not going to work.

You might have meant to create a cell array:

>> c = {'a','0','10','20'}

c = 

    'a'    '0'    '10'    '20'

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Matlab arrays are numerical matrices, not general-purpose list containers.

Answer 2

Following on from Li-aung's answer, what you probably want is something like

isequal({a,b,c,d}, {'a', '0', '10', '20'})

This will return true iff a has the value 'a' and so on.

EDIT

To perform multiple assignments, you can use DEAL

[a,b,c,d] = deal('a', '0', '10', '20')