From: John D'Errico on
Samiran <samiran.iitkgp(a)gmail.com> wrote in message <1857484702.185654.1266078597050.JavaMail.root(a)gallium.mathforum.org>...
> Is there any readymade function by which part of a string can be extracted? like almost every other programming language has methods like 'substring'/'substr' to extract a part from a string based upon the start and end index????

A string is just a vector or an array. So use the standard
indexing methods in matlb.

S = 'qwertyuiop';
S(3:5)
ans =
ert

John
From: Donn Shull on
Samiran <samiran.iitkgp(a)gmail.com> wrote in message <1857484702.185654.1266078597050.JavaMail.root(a)gallium.mathforum.org>...
> Is there any readymade function by which part of a string can be extracted? like almost every other programming language has methods like 'substring'/'substr' to extract a part from a string based upon the start and end index????

>> str = 'This is a string'

str =

This is a string

>> substring1 = str(1:4)

substring1 =

This

>> substring2 = str(11:end)

substring2 =

string

>>