The module "cellstr2index" of the Mastrave modelling library

Copyright and license notice of the function cellstr2index

Copyright © 2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2012,2014 Daniele de Rigo

The file cellstr2index.m is part of Mastrave.

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Function declaration

[ indices, cardinality, glossary ] = 
   cellstr2index( cellstring      ,
                  mode       = [] )

Description

Strings cannot be used as indices. @cellstr2index maps strings into positive integers preserving their order. If cellstring is a cell-array of cellstrings then indices is returned as a cell-array whose elements are the corresponding matrices of indices. Each index of indices represents a value of (the elements of) cellstring which may occur several times in cellstring . To each occurrence of the same value corresponds the same index. The set of these correspondences is returned in the cell of strings glossary , whose length is the cardinality of the indices set. The particular way in which indices are generates can be governed using the optional mode input argument (if omitted, its default value is 'ascending').

Input arguments

 cellstring              ::cellstring-1|cellstring-2::
                         Cell array of strings or of string cell arrays.

 mode                    ::string::
                         Criterion for generating indices from
                          cellstring . The default value is [] (empty)
                         If empty, the mode 'ascending' is used.
                         Valid modes are:

                              mode     │      meaning
                         ──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────
                          'ascending'  │ Indices are generated by
                                       │ associating to each element of
                                       │  cellstring  the position of its
                                       │ first occurrence in the set of 
                                       │  cellstring  elements sorted in
                                       │ ascending order.
                         ──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────
                          'descending' │ Indices are generated by
                                       │ associating to each element of
                                       │  cellstring  the position of its
                                       │ first occurrence in the set of 
                                       │  cellstring  elements sorted in
                                       │ descending order.
                         ──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────
                          'forward'    │ Indices are generated by
                                       │ associating to each element of
                                       │  cellstring  the position of its
                                       │ first occurrence in the set of 
                                       │  cellstring  elements.
                         ──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────
                          'backward'   │ Indices are generated by
                                       │ associating to each element of
                                       │  cellstring  the position of its
                                       │ first occurrence in the set of 
                                       │  cellstring  elements listed
                                       │ in reverse order.
                         ──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────
                          'random'     │ Indices are generated by
                                       │ associating to each element of
                                       │  cellstring  the position of its
                                       │ first occurrence in the set of 
                                       │  cellstring  elements randomly
                                       │ shuffled.

Example of usage

   % Basic usage: passing a cell-array of strings
   m1            =  { 'foo'    , 'bar' , ''     , 'baz' }
   m2            =  { 'foobar' , 'bar' , 'quux' , 'foo' , 'bar' }
   m3            =  { }
   m4            =  { 'foo'    , 'bar' ; ''     , 'baz' }
   m5            =  { ''       , 'foo' ; 'foo'  , ''    }
   [idx, len, g] = cellstr2index( m1 )
   [idx, len, g] = cellstr2index( m2 )
   [idx, len, g] = cellstr2index( m3 )
   [idx, len, g] = cellstr2index( m4 )
   [idx, len, g] = cellstr2index( m5 )

   % How  mode  affects the generated indices
   idx           = cellstr2index( m2 , 'ascending'  )
   idx           = cellstr2index( m2 , 'descending' )
   idx           = cellstr2index( m2 , 'forward'    )
   idx           = cellstr2index( m2 , 'backward'   )
   idx           = cellstr2index( m2 , 'random'     )
   idx           = cellstr2index( m2 , 'random'     )

   % Passing a cell-array of string cell-arrays
   [idx, len]    = cellstr2index( { m1 , m2 } )
   [idx, len]    = cellstr2index( { m1 , m2 , m3 } )
   [idx, len]    = cellstr2index( { m1 , m2 , m4 } )
   [idx, len, g] = cellstr2index( { m1 , m2 , m3 , m4 } )
   [idx, len, g] = cellstr2index( { m1 , m2 , m3 , 'foo' , m4 , '' } )

   % How  mode  affects the generated indices in case
   % of cell-array of string cell-arrays
   idx           = cellstr2index( { m1 , m2 , m3 } , 'ascending'  )
   idx           = cellstr2index( { m1 , m2 , m3 } , 'descending' )
   idx           = cellstr2index( { m1 , m2 , m3 } , 'forward'    )
   idx           = cellstr2index( { m1 , m2 , m3 } , 'backward'   )
   idx           = cellstr2index( { m1 , m2 , m3 } , 'random'     )
   idx           = cellstr2index( { m1 , m2 , m3 } , 'random'     )

   % Behavior in case of borderline inputs.
   % - Passing a single string
   [idx, len, g] = cellstr2index( 'foo' )
   % - Passing an empty cell-array
   [idx, len, g] = cellstr2index( { } )
   % - Passing a cell-array of empty cell-arrays
   [idx, len, g] = cellstr2index( { {} , {} } )

See also:
   real2index, sortable2index



Keywords:
   conversion, cell-array, cellstr, indices



Version: 0.4.6

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