comparing strings in alphabetical order
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I'm trying to see the which of the input of 2strings(x1,x2) come first alphabetically.(e.g if x1 comes first it will return 1, if x2 comes first it will return -1..)
they need to be in a same length otherwise it doesn't work which is why I did 'MaxLength'.Also I got rid of the blanks in between if it's a sentence.
but I'm trying to compare the ASCII code of each string (a=97) and see which one comes first.
i did this so far but it just won't work.
x1= lower(input('Enter a string: ','s'));
x2= lower(input('Enter a string: ','s'));
x1 = strrep(x1,' ','')
x2 = strrep(x2,' ','')%string replacement
x1_d=double(x1)
x2_d=double(x2)
x1_length=length(x1)
x2_length=length(x2)
maxLength = max([length(x1_d), length(x2_d)])
x1_d(length(x1_d)+1:maxLength) = 0
x2_d(length(x2_d)+1:maxLength) = 0
if x1_d<x1_d
disp('x1 alphabetically procedure x2')
elseif x1_d>x2_d
disp('x2 alpha x1')
else
disp('same')
end
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Answers (2)
Stephen23
on 29 May 2019
Simpler and more robust:
S1 = 'banana';
S2 = 'apple';
[~,X] = sort({S1,S2})
Z = diff(X)
Guillaume
on 29 May 2019
Even simpler, use strings instead of char vector. Comparison operators work on the whole string instead of on characters
S1 = "banana"
S2 = "apple"
S1 < S2 %returns false
S2 == S2 %returns true
So with your code:
x1 = lower(input('Enter a string: ','s'));
x2 = lower(input('Enter a string: ','s'));
x1 = string(x1);
x2 = string(x2);
if x1 < x2
disp('x1 is before x2 alphabetically')
elseif x1 == x2
disp('x1 and x2 are identical')
else
disp('x1 is after x2 alphabetically')
end
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