[Scilab-users] Converting string months to month numbers

[Jens Simon Strom]

Hallo,
Given the string vector

M=['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec']
which implicitly maps the string representation of the months to their number representataion I would like to map any string matrix containing elements of M into a numercal matrix showing the month numbers.
E. g.
Ms=['Dec','Apr';'Feb','Dec';'Jun','Jul']
should be converted to
Mn=[12,4;2,12;6,7].

Ho can that be done in a vectorial style?

Backward (given Mn) it is easier to me:
Ms=matrix(M(Mn),size(Mn))

Regards
Jens

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