finding number of a column in a cell (column that contains a specified string)

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how could it be done for finding first which array of a cell is equal a specified string and in second, what is number of column that contains this string
for example:
CELL={'a','b','c','d','e','f',...}
finding 'a' in CELL?(which row and column)

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Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang on 21 Sep 2011
CELL={'a','b','c';'d','e','f'};
[Row,Col]=ind2sub(size(CELL),find(ismember(CELL,'e')))
or
[Row,Col]=ind2sub(size(CELL),find(strcmp(CELL,'e')))
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Harry MacDowel
Harry MacDowel on 21 Sep 2011
find(char(CELL)=='a')
Does that help?
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Grzegorz Knor
Grzegorz Knor on 21 Sep 2011
See in documentation:
doc strfind
strfind(CELL,'a')
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Jan
Jan on 21 Sep 2011
I definitely prefer Grzegorz's solution in the comment above:
find(strcmp(C, 'a'))

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