How to find column and line # at which a match occurs using the find function?

Hi,

I have a large string and I am using the find function to find a specific word in the string. How do I know the line and the column number at which the match occurs?

Thanks

[Walter Roberson]

Strings do not have lines. Not unless there is something within the string that you intend should be interpreted as "end of line".

[Edy]

hmm. In that case how do I find the column at which the match occurred?

[Walter Roberson]

find() returns an index. If there is only one line, then the index is the column number.

Is it possible that you are working with a cell array of strings? Or that you are working with a character array that is blank padded, such as

['Hello'; 'Edy  ']

If you are then asking about lines becomes meaningful.

Asking about lines is also meaningful if your lines have a delimiter such as newline between them. For example,

S = sprintf('Hello\nEdy');

then S will a string with 9 characters in it, the 6th of which is the newline character (char(10)). You can end up with strings like that if you read in an entire text file.