split

Splits a delimited string into a cell array.

Description

Splits a delimited string into a cell array. Example: split('_/', 'this_is___a_/_string/_//') returns {'this', 'is', 'a', 'string', []}.

Tested on MATLAB R12.1 and R13.

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; rsplit
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.1 (R12.1)

[amir k]

Works well

[Jonathan Moore]

convenient

[R Hunt]

thanks for sharing this

[hi choi]

Just what I needed. Thanks a lot!

[Ricardo Hernandez-Perez]

Thanks for sharing this, it's great! It saved a lot of work

[saideh rad]

 

[Abel Brown]

This rocks! so useful in perl. nice to have it for matlab also! Nice work

[cant believe]

no support for tabs? wtf?

[xiaohui chen]

 

[Patrick Mineault]

A more efficient way of doing the same thing which supports tabs and newlines:

splitchar = '\n'; %Split on newline characters
C = textscan(s,['%s' splitchar]);