[Scilab-users] Converting string months to month numbers

[Samuel Gougeon]

Hello,

Le 20/10/2016 13:31, Mike Page a écrit :
> Hi Jens,
>
> grep does something like what you want.
>
> -->[r,w]=grep(Ms,M);
> -->matrix(w,size(Ms))
>  ans  =
>
>     12.    4.
>     2.     12.
>     6.     7.
>
> Not sure why grep produces a vector when searching for a matrix, but 
> it seems that way.
.
Because in the general case, there may be no match between Ms and M 
components. In that case, r is shorter than Ms, and matrix() can't be used.

BR