Thread Subject: Replacing spaces with underscores in Text

hi,

I have a 800x1 cell array containing text such as:

RPT OK 12 R

How can I replace the spaces in the text with underscores
(i.e. _ ) ?

I would like the output to be:

RPT_OK_12_R

Thanks!

sushma

sushma sharma wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have a 800x1 cell array containing text such as:
>
> RPT OK 12 R
>
> How can I replace the spaces in the text with underscores
> (i.e. _ ) ?
>
> I would like the output to be:
>
> RPT_OK_12_R
>
> Thanks!
>
> sushma

help strrep
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Richard Quist
Software Developer
The MathWorks, Inc.

"sushma sharma" <ssharma@ynospamahoo.com> wrote in message
<fose99$cba$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> hi,
>
> I have a 800x1 cell array containing text such as:
>
> RPT OK 12 R
>
> How can I replace the spaces in the text with underscores
> (i.e. _ ) ?
>
> I would like the output to be:
>
> RPT_OK_12_R
>
> Thanks!
>
> sushma

Hi,

regexprep(a,' ','_')

should do the job.

Sincerely, Thomas

"sushma sharma" <ssharma@ynospamahoo.com> wrote in message
<fose99$cba$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> hi,
>
> I have a 800x1 cell array containing text such as:
>
> RPT OK 12 R
>
> How can I replace the spaces in the text with underscores
> (i.e. _ ) ?
>
> I would like the output to be:
>
> RPT_OK_12_R

Look at help strfun for a list of functions related to
strings. In this case you want STRREP. If your cellstr array
is called C,

C=strrep(C, ' ', '_')

will do what you want.

thank you!