finding a string variable in structure array

Hi KSSV,

Thanks for your answer. However, it was not quite what I was looking for, but more like:

name = struct() ;
name(1).fnme(1).nm = 'Tom';
name(2).fnme(1).nm = 'Dick';
name(3).fnme(1).nm = 'Harry'; 
%% Get Dick from the structure 
for n=1:length(name)
    names = fieldnames(string(name(n).fnme(1).nm{1,1})) ;
    names1 = string(names);
    idx = find(not(cellfun('contains', strfind(names1,'Dick'))));
    iwant = getfield(name(n).fnme.nm,names1{idx});
end 

However, it was solved by:

    nSeasons = 4;

    NAME=1; SEASON=2;
    load('datafile.mat');

    Where Nm is a cellArray with {station-name and season}
    stationname = {'Tom','Dick','Harry'}
    season = {'wint', 'sprn', 'autm', 'summ'}

    for ci = 1:length(datafile)
        for si = 1:nSeasons
            name_season_pair = datafile(ci).Cson(si).Nm;
            name_in_data = name_season_pair{NAME};
            season_in_data = name_season_pair{SEASON};
            if strcmp(name_in_data, stationname) && strcmp(season_in_data, season)
                location_ind = ci;
                season_ind = si;
                break;
            end
        end
    end

% Set-up return
S  = datafile(location_ind).Cson(season_ind);

season was not necessary but proved useful.

I am sorry if my request was misleading or incomplete but thanks for your help as it gave the basis for the solution.

Regards T