splitting strings?

[Thomas Treichl]

Matthias Brennwald schrieb:
> Dear all
> 
> I used the 'split' command to split stings in Octave. However, running  
> this code in Matlab results in an error saying that 'split' is unknown  
> to Matlab. Is there an alternative that works on both Octave and Matlab?

Hi Matthias,

on a 3.0.3 system you can test if the strtok function can be used for your 
needs, type "help strtok" to get an explanation for this function. The split 
example from the help message rewritten with the strtok function is

   N = 2;
   vstr = "Test string";

   for vcnt = 1:N
     [vres{vcnt}, vstr] = strtok (vstr, "t");
   endfor

   vres{end} = [vres{end}, vstr];
   vres

or without N, something like

   vstr = "Test string";
   vcnt = 1;

   while (~isempty (vstr))
     [vres{vcnt}, vstr] = strtok (vstr, "t");
     vcnt = vcnt + 1;
   endwhile

   vres{end} = [vres{end}, vstr];
   vres

Best regards,

   Thomas