Is there a (default) Matlab function that behaves similar to the java method split(delimiter), where you can tokenize a string based on an arbritary delimiter?
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3Worth mentioning that as of Matlab 2013a there is a function called `strsplit` that does it. – Dan Mar 04 '14 at 11:25
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There is a built-in function called textscan that's capable of this:
>> C = textscan('I like stack overflow', '%s', 'delimiter', 'o');
>> C = C{1}
C =
'I like stack '
'verfl'
'w'
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suppose the string `str = 'myfile.txt'` and we want to separate it on the `.` delimiter. So `(str0,str1) = strtok(str,'.')` would split the string on the delimiter specified in the second argument to 'strtok()`. The curly braces in the prev comment were a typo, sorry. – AruniRC Oct 11 '12 at 18:07
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2@AruniRC: true. However, it only splits *once*, e.g., to achieve the split shown in my answer, you'd have to recursively call `strtok`, whereas the `textscan` solution is a oneliner (OK, 2, but oh well :) – Rody Oldenhuis Oct 11 '12 at 18:13
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ah. always assumed (wrongly) that `strtok` would work for multiple-delimiters. so then - nice solution? :) – AruniRC Oct 12 '12 at 11:51
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Here are more than one ways to split a string. One as Rody Oldenhuis has just mentioned, and here are some others:
1> Using the function regexp :
>> str = 'Good good study Day day up';
>> regexp(str,'\s','split')
ans =
'Good' 'good' 'study' 'Day' 'day' 'up'
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2> Using the function strread:
>> str = 'Section 4, Page 7, Line 26';
>> strread(str, '%s', 'delimiter', ',')
ans =
'Section 4'
'Page 7'
'Line 26'
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@robguinness Works fine in mine. Anyway, the function 'regexp' is better. – Eastsun Aug 29 '12 at 10:25
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There is a function similar to what you mentioned on file exchange in a package called xml_toolbox.
It is called strsplit.
strsplit('I like stack overflow','o')
ans =
'I like stack' 'verfl' 'w'
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