Is there an easy way to find a smaller cell array of strings within a larger one? I've got two lists, one with unique elements, and one with repeating elements. I want to find whole occurrences of the specific pattern of the smaller array within the larger. I'm aware that strcmp will compare two cell arrays, but only if they're equal in length. My first thought was to step through subsets of the larger array using a loop, but there's got to be a better solution.
For example, in the following:
smallcellarray={'string1',...
'string2',...
'string3'};
largecellarray={'string1',...
'string2',...
'string3',...
'string1',...
'string2',...
'string1',...
'string2',...
'string3'};
index=myfunction(largecellarray,smallcellarray)
would return
index=[1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1]