Display a value from a Matrix based on user input

Hi I have a matrix , if the user enters '1234' at userinput I would like the output to be the next cell along or '5678' B etc. etc.

is this possible? I would also like the user to be able to type in more than one number at a time (the numbers are always blocks of four) EG if they type '12345678' the output would be AB

Thanks

for counter = 1:4:length(userinput)
   
end

mykey= ["1234","A";"5678","B"];

userinput= input ('enter your numnber')

output= XXXXXXX

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

Note that your mykey is a string array. We typically use the term matrix only when referring to numeric arrays.

Also note that "1234" is not a number. It's the textual representation of a number. It would indeed be better if you stored the numbers as actual numbers rather than text, eg:

mymap = containers.Map([1234, 5678], ["A", "B"]);

or

mytable = table([1234; 5678], ["A"; "B"], 'VariableNames', {'key', 'value'});

Either of these make it trivial to retrieve the value associated with a key:

%using containers.Map
searchkey = input('Enter a single number');
if isKey(mymap, searchkey)
    fprintf('The value matching key %d is: %s\n\n', searchkey, mymap(searchkey));  %mymap(searchkey) returns the corresponding value
end
searchkeys = input('Enter an array of number')
[found, whichindex] = ismember(searchkeys, mymap.Keys);
keysfound = searchkeys(found);
matchingvalues = mymap.Values(whichindex(found));
fprintf('These numbers were found: [%s]\n', strjoin(compose('%d', keysfound), ', '));
fprintf('Matching values are: [%s]\n\n', strjoin(matchingvalues, ', '));

%using a table
searchkeys = input('Enter one or more number');
[~, where] = ismember(searchkeys, mytable.key);
keysfound = mytable.key(where);
matchingvalues = mytable.values(where);
fprintf('These numbers were found: [%s]\n', strjoin(compose('%d', keysfound), ','));
fprintf('Matching values are: [%s\n\n', strjoin(matchingvalues, ','));

The key function to looking up multiple keys at once is ismember.

Note that all of the above works even if the keys are actually strings but storing numbers as numbers is more efficient (faster comparison, less memory used).

[James Knight]

Thanks this is perfect,

Is it possible to tweek it to allow the user to input multiple numbers in one single entry?

EG if they enter 12345678 it outputs AB ?

Thanks

[Guillaume]

How do you know that 12345678 is 1234 next to 5678 and not 123 next to 45678?

[James Knight]

It only accepts blocks of 4

[Guillaume]

searchkeys = input('some prompt', 's')
assert(mod(numel(searchkeys), 4) == 0, 'length of key myst be a multiple of 4');
searchkeys = mat2cell(searchkeys, repelem(4, numel(searchkeys)/4));  %split into char vectors of length 4
%... use ismember or other as above