Determine which string in an array matched using contains()

I am working with contains and have a string array that I am using to determine whether another string array contains any of those values.

Right now I am using an if statement to determine whether or not they do and it works just fine.

The issue I am having is I would like to know which specific string matched in the supplied pattern array.

Example:

if contains("AUTOZONE #0093",["Amazon","Autozone","Home Depot"],'IgnoreCase',true)
    % standardize name
end

So this reads as true, which is good but what I am trying to do is now take that test string and convert it to match the pattern found. So it would ideally be like:

stringArray = ["",,,,,,,,,,,,"AUTOZONE #0093"]; % you get the point its a stringArray
vendorArray = ["Amazon","Autozone","Home Depot"]; % pattern string Array

if contains(stringArray(48,1),vendorArray,'IgnoreCase',true)
    stringArray(48,1) = vendorArray(1,2); 
    %the issue here being I need to get the index value of the matched pattern i.e. 2
end

I can't flip the pattern and the search, I've tried that. I've tried strcmp, matches, ismember, find(strcmp). Can't get it to output what I need...

Any help would be appreciated I'm just not sure if there already exists a way to pull the index or if I need to restructure my test case here.

Thanks!

[Matt J]

The issue I am having is I would like to know which specific string matched in the supplied pattern array.

You imply that at most one pattern will be matched.

Answer 1

[Matt J]

Easiest thing would be to just loop over the shorter of the two arrays, probably the pattern array:

stringArray=stringArray(:);
vendorArray=vendorArray(:)';  n=numel(vendorArray);
 

clear T
for 1=n:-1:1
    
    T(:,i)=contains(stringArray,vendorArray(i),'IgnoreCase',1);
    
end

locations=T*(1:n).';

locations(sum(T,2)~=1)=nan;

[Mark Welker]

This works, and allows me to match the array pattern. You might want to make this update:

for i=n:-1:1
    T(:,i)contains(stringArray,vendorArray(i),'IgnoreCase',true);
end

to avoid any confusion in the future.

Thanks for the help!