Thread Subject: Extract an alphabet from a string?

How can I extract an alphabet from a string? For example,
I have a string

StrVar = 'abcde'

How can I extract the 2nd alphabet (which is 'b') from the
string? I remember that I was able to do it with
QuickBasic sometime ago but cannot find the comparable
command in Matlab.

Thanks.

John

"John Chow" <nospam@mathworks.com> wrote in message
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>
> How can I extract the 2nd alphabet (which is 'b') from the
> string?

StrVar(2)

Bruno

"John Chow" <nospam@mathworks.com> wrote in message
<fulk7c$7uv$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> How can I extract an alphabet from a string? For example,
> I have a string
>
> StrVar = 'abcde'
>
> How can I extract the 2nd alphabet (which is 'b') from the
> string? I remember that I was able to do it with
> QuickBasic sometime ago but cannot find the comparable
> command in Matlab.
>
> Thanks.
>
> John

StrVar == char(98)

or

StrVar == 'b'