how to remove certain characters from a string in a file

how to remove certain characters from a string based on some condition ie i have a text in a file '32/4/5' i want to retain only 32 and delete rest .my condition is if a '/' is identified then rest characters should be deleted .

Answer 1

[Kye Taylor]

Similar to @Srinivas, you could try

str = '32/4/5';
str = regexprep(str,'/.*','');

[Sharen H]

perfect thanks ...

Answer 2

[Srinivas]

one way

mystr =  '32/4/5' 
loc = strfind(mystr,'/')  
mystr(loc(1):end) =[]

[Sharen H]

it works ...thanks