check a cell of a cellarray and apply a function

hi everybody, i have the folloying cellarray

a= { 'me'     [0]    [0]   [0] [0]    [0]   [0]
     'you'    [0]    [0]   [0]  [0]    [0]   [0]
     'he'     [0]    [0]   [0] [0]    [0]   [0]}

now I want to check for each row weither the first cell is 'me', you or he and for each result set a specific value to the other cells. I did this

[m,n]=size(a);
for i= 1:m
     if a{i,1}=='me' %this doesnt work !
        a{i,7}=7;
        a{i,3}=7;  
    end
end

Answer 1

[Keith Hooks]

Try using strcmp instead.

if strcmp(a{i,1}, 'me')
   ...
end

In x==Y, the '==' operator compares x with each element of Y. Using '==' then compares your variable to each character of 'me' since 'me' is actually a character array.

[Paul Nanfah]

thanks a lot !