Find index of pattern match

Hello! I am trying to find index position of a pattern from a string array in a string. for example:

string='Mary had a little lamb';
fcnset=["big","little","small"];

I would want the result as the index of 'little' from the string. I tried the following line, but it doesn't work:

n = find(contains(string,fcnset));

how do I go about it?

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

>> str = 'Mary had a little lamb';
>> pat = {'big','little','small'};
>> idx = ~cellfun('isempty',strfind(str,pat))
idx =
  0  1  0
>> find(idx)
ans =  2

[Tiasa Ghosh]

I get the following error on running the same code

[Stephen23]

Aaah, sorry. Try one of these:

>> str = 'Mary had a little lamb';
>> pat = {'big','little','small'};
>> idx = ~cellfun('isempty',regexp(str,pat))
idx =
  0  1  0
>> find(idx)
ans =  2

Or

>> str = 'Mary had a little lamb';
>> pat = {'big','little','small'};
>> fun = @(p)isempty(strfind(str,p));
>> idx = ~cellfun(fun,pat)
idx =
  0  1  0
>> find(idx)
ans =  2

Or

contains

Answer 2

[KSSV]

string='Mary had a little lamb';
fcnset=["big","little","small"];

idx = zeros(3,1) ;
for i = 1:3
    idx(i) =  contains(string,fcnset{i}) ;
end

[Tiasa Ghosh]

Thank you for your input!