Finding string such as "A**B"

Hi,

Is there any way to find word uncontinous such as "A**B" in matrix?

Here the example,

AGDB

ARBC

AGRB

ATWC

AWYB

I want to find 'AGDB', 'AGRB', 'AWYB' which are have same regularity 'A**B'.

Please help me.

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Tushar Behera]

Hi HCLEE,

I believe you want to find a string in your matrix which have starting point as "A" and ending with "B".

This can be acheived by using "regexp" function in matlab. For example:

matrix = {'AGDB', 'ARBC', 'AGRB', 'ATWC', 'AWYB','DAmnnB'};
expression = '^A.*B$';

indices = cellfun(@(x) ~isempty(regexp(x, expression, 'start')), matrix);
result = matrix(indices);

In this code, the "cellfun" function is used to apply the regexp function to each element of the cell array matrix. "cellfun" is a function in MATLAB that applies a function to each element of a cell array, and returns the results as an array of the same size.

i hope this resolves your query.

Regards,

Tushar

[HCLEE]

Thank you for your help greatly.