Using bsxfun for non-numeric data

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John Doe
John Doe 2013-6-13
评论： Matt J 2019-11-20
Is there an equivalent to bsxfun for non-numeric data?
For example, I want to compare all pairs of strings stored in two cell-arrays:
a = {'aa', 'bb', 'cc'};
b = {'dd', 'aa'};
bsxfun( @strcmp, a, b' ); % not working for cells
I want something like this:
bsxfun(@eq, 1:3, (1:4)')
ans =
1 0 0
0 1 0
0 0 1
0 0 0

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Matt J
Matt J 2013-6-13
编辑：Matt J 2013-6-13
Here's a way you could still do the comparison in the "string domain",
>> ia=(1:length(a)).'; ib=1:length(b);
>> a=a(:);
>> bsxfun(@(i,j) strcmp( a(i),b(j) ) ,ia, ib)
ans =
0 1
0 0
0 0

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Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski 2013-6-13
Yes, bsxfun only supports numeric datatypes.
Here's the workaround I would take: Use unique to convert to numbers and eq as the comparison:
a = {'aa', 'bb', 'cc'};
b = {'dd', 'aa'};
[~,~,idx] = unique([a(:); b(:)],'stable'); %equal numbers instead of strings
ee = bsxfun(@eq,idx(1:numel(a))',idx(numel(a)+1:end));
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David Young
David Young 2019-11-20
It seems like a completely unnecessary restriction for bsxfun to only accept numeric arrays - the function passed as the first argument must surely do its own checking anyway. The trick of using unique is neat, but it's a real shame it's necessary, and it's still not general. You could make bsxfun more powerful simply by taking out the check. All that's needed is that the results can be assembled into an array as arrayfun does.

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Steven Lord
Steven Lord 2019-11-20
For this specific example, you can now take advantage of implicit expansion and the string type.
>> a = {'aa', 'bb', 'cc'};
>> b = {'dd', 'aa'};
>> string(a) == string(b).'
ans =
2×3 logical array
0 0 0
1 0 0
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Matt J
Matt J 2019-11-20
Didn't know that implicit expansion applies to non-numeric types! That should get more documentation.

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