[Changeset] Re: Behavior of the matlab regexptranslate function

[David Bateman]

Ben Abbott wrote:
> I just finished the install of 2008a. The results from 2008a and 2007b
> (the same) are below.
> 
>>> regexp ('file1.mat file2.mat file3.xls file4.mat', ...
> regexptranslate('wildcard','*.mat'), 'match')
> 
> ans =
> 
>     'file1.mat file2.mat file3.xls file4.mat'
> 
>>> regexptranslate('wildcard','*.mat')
> 
> ans =
> 
> .*\.mat
> 
> Ben


Tine to file a bug report against matlab then.. In any case thinking
further about it replacing '*.mat' with '.*\.mat' makes as much sense as
replacing it with '\w+\.mat' as otherwise how do you treat filenames
with spaces in them.. I suspect this is a case of a matlab developer
trying the write the DoWhatIWantNotWhatIAsked function, and the moral is
that you should learn the syntax of regexp rather than relying on a
particular behavior of the regexptranslate function.

In any case I attach a changeset that duplicates the behavior of the
matlab function.

D.


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