How to extract indices of matching strings in the following problem?

Suppose I have an ordered string structure like this: {'word1','word2','word3','word4','word5','word6'.etc.}

And I have another one, which is a subset, for example {'word5','word2','word4'}.

And I want to extract indices corresponding to the first structure, so the result should be the ordered vector [5,2,4];

Which is the shortest solution for this, whithout a for cycle?

Answer 1

[Voss]

big_list = {'word1','word2','word3','word4','word5','word6'};
small_list =  {'word5','word2','word4'};

[~,idx] = ismember(small_list,big_list)

idx = 1×3

5 2 4