Find indexes of strings that have special characters.

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I have column that consist of strings
eg.
someString
String
otherString
someString
String
and I want to get idexes of strings that have word 'some' or 'other' inside it.
so the result of the function will be [1,3,4].

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Andrei Bobrov
Andrei Bobrov on 16 Sep 2013
a = {'someString';'String';'otherString';'someString';'String'};
out = find(~cellfun('isempty',regexpi(a,'some|other')));
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Jonasz
Jonasz on 16 Sep 2013
Thank you very much.Do you know how to change it so it will work dynamically. I mean (some and other) shall we say it's numbers (0 and 1) but other time I have to find in string numbers (0,1 and 2) do you know how to write this in regexpi function.

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