MATLAB, multiple equality 'shortcut'

Question

I have the following array:

a = magic(12);
a = a(:,1);

It's a list of these twelve numbers:

144
 13
 25
108
 96
 61
 73
 60
 48
109
121
 12

Now if I want to 'filter out' the values of 25, 61 and 109, I could write something like this:

m = (a == 25) | (a == 61) | (a == 109)

However, is there a way to write that more easily? Something like:

m = a IN(25, 61, 109)

Best.

Answer 1

m = ismember(a, [25 61 109]); 

docs for ismember here.