Get index of object with a given property in an array

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Is it possible to remove an entry from a vector of arrays based on a certain property?
How would I get the index of a certain person in the n the phone book example on https://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_oop/finding-objects-having-specific-settings.html?
classdef PhoneBook < dynamicprops
properties
Name
Address
Number
end
methods
function obj = PhoneBook(n,a,p)
obj.Name = n;
obj.Address = a;
obj.Number = p;
end
end
end
We add some entries:
PB(1) = PhoneBook('Nancy Vidal','123 Washington Street','5081234567');
PB(2) = PhoneBook('Nancy Vidal','123 Main Street','5081234568');
PB(3) = PhoneBook('Nancy Wong','123 South Street','5081234569');
I would now like to remove an entry based on the value of a property:
NW = findobj(PB,'Name','Nancy Wong'); % To remove an entry, I would like to get the index and not the entry itself

Accepted Answer

Ameer Hamza
Ameer Hamza on 18 Mar 2020
For the class you defined, you can use something like this
PB(1) = PhoneBook('Nancy Vidal','123 Washington Street','5081234567');
PB(2) = PhoneBook('Nancy Vidal','123 Main Street','5081234568');
PB(3) = PhoneBook('Nancy Wong','123 South Street','5081234569');
NW = findobj(PB,'Name','Nancy Wong');
PB(PB == NW) = [];

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