How to find specific value in a table

II'm doing a thermodynamics homework and i need to extrac de values of heat capacity from to a table, but i need find them searching the name of the chemical specie.

my problem it's when i need search the Cp values of water writing the water molecular formula (ex: H2O), how i to find it without literaly copy the values from the table?

Answer 1

[KSSV]

You canget the index where it lies using strfind. Let T be your table.

idx = strfind(T.Formula,'H2O') ;   % logical index 
id = find(idx) ;   % index 
val = T.A(idx) 

[VISHNU DIVAKARAN PILLAI]

i have a table name 'dcode'

d={':';'M';'D';'MD';'A';'AM';'AD';'AMD'};

d_address={'000';'001';'010';'011';'100';'101';'110';'111'};

dcode=table(d,d_address);

i would like access the equivalent value of 'D' in column 1 from column 2 .

( if i search the value for D i need to get ans as 010 from column 2)

can u please help me how to do it.

thanks in advance