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From: Sandy S on 1 Mar 2010 02:22
roberson(a)ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) wrote in message <fg8p0j$fi9$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
> In article <fg8ljd$dq1$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>,
> Lauren D <ld(a)mathworks.com> wrote:
> >I have to remove all punctuation and spaces from a sentence.
> >I'm using a for loop and if statement to do the removal. Is
> >there a function to remove all spaces in a string? If not
> >what is the statement to check if a string location is ~= to
> >a space? How do you specify a space in a statement?
>
> stringname(ismember(stringname,' ,.:;!')) = [];
>
> This assumes that - is not considered punctuation, which is
> debatable: the m-dash could probably be legitimately considered
> punctuation, but you would have to find the unicode for that
> if you wanted to distinguish it from the hyphen and n-dash;
> then you also have the problem that the m-dash is sometimes
> rendered in ascii as a double-hyphen, and if you are processing
> such text you'd want that to be punctuation but not single dashes...
>
> The above also assumes that brackets and braces and the various
> quotation marks are not considered punctuation, nor the backslash
> and not the solidus.
>
> You might also wish to consider investigating the isspace()
> function.
>
> --
> "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
> not tried it." -- Donald Knuth



Thanks dude...That was helpful!!

-SANDEEP.
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