Removing characters from a string?
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From: Wayne King on 12 Feb 2010 12:35 "Mark Hard" <GerryTheLeper(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message <hl42ps$liq$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>... > Hi, > > I have 2 strings, one called "nset=_PickedSet5," and one called "_PickedSet5," (both including the comma at the end) which are both read in automatically from a text file. I would like to add 2 bits of code after each of them that would make them both equal to "PickedSet5". > > Can anyone reccoment me a command to do this?I've tried experimenting with ismember and strread but can't seem to get it to work. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Mark. Hi Mark, if these are your only two situations, and the "offensive" characters always occur in these locations, then you can simply set those elements of the character arrays to be empty: A = 'nset=_PickedSet5,'; B = '_PickedSet5,'; A([1:6,end]) = []; B([1,end]) = []; Hope that helps, Wayne
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