How do I compare similar string?

I have two types of string.

1. Democratic Republic of the Congo
2. Congo (Dem. Rep.)

I want to save the string in the column of each ('Democratic' 'Republic' 'of' 'the' 'Congo' ...)

And When comparing #1, #2 , And outputs it to #2 ( Congo (Dem. Rep.) ), If there is a match in one string (Congo).

What should I do?

Please help me.

Answer 1

[Michael Haderlein]

With intersect, you will find the matching one string*:

>> sstr1=strsplit(str1,' ');
>> sstr2=strsplit(str2,' ');
>> intersect(sstr1,sstr2)

ans = 

      'Congo'

However, I'm not sure if that's really what you want - if you compare "Democratic Republic of the Congo" with "People's Republic of China", you will also get some nonempty result.

*Please note that I have an older Matlab release which does not include the strsplit function. However, I have a self-written one (which follows a little different syntax). In case the string splitting in my code does not work, it's for that reason.