Behavior of the matlab regexptranslate function

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 21, 2008, at 4:02 PM, David Bateman wrote:
> Ben Abbott wrote:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> I have a license, but have not yet installed it.
>>
>> Please post the tests, and if no one steps up, I'll install 2008a  
>> and run them.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>
> Something like
>
> regexptranslate ('wildcard', '*a?b*c?')

ans =

.*a.b.*c.

> regexptranslate ('wildcard','?a*b?c*')

ans =

.a.*b.c.*

> regexptranslate ('wildcard','*a? *c?')

ans =

.*a. .*c.

> regexptranslate ('wildcard', '?a* ?c*')

ans =

.a.* .c.*

> regexptranslate ('escape', '.a/b\c[d]e$f(g)')

ans =

\.a/b\\c\[d\]e\$f\(g\)

I must admit, having just installed 2008a and never looked at what  
regexptranslate is intended to do, those results all look surprising.

Hopefully, they are what you expected?

Ben