# Julian way of MATLAB ismember function?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [May 16, 2017, 8:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julian-way-of-matlab-ismember-function/3740 "2017-05-16T08:44:07Z")\
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Thats correct, `occursin` is for checking whether one string occurs in another string, like `occursin("Hey", "HeyHo")`.  
If you want to check whether the strings in Array `A` are in Array `B`, you can still use `in.(A, Ref(B))`.  
Or if you want the index, `indexin(A,B)`.

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