Thread Subject: split text string

Hi, I have multiple text strings consisting of two words
separated with a "tab" looking something like below:

one two

now how do you do to split this string to two separate
strings, in this case it would be split to the strings 'one'
and 'two'.

Thanks

In article <g55r8q$f4c$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
Bamba Bolo <hooana@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi, I have multiple text strings consisting of two words
>separated with a "tab" looking something like below:

>one two

>now how do you do to split this string to two separate
>strings, in this case it would be split to the strings 'one'
>and 'two'.

regexp(TheString, '([^ \t][^\t]*)', 'match')

This expression is a bit more complicated than is at first
obvious because I detect that there is a space after the tab
but your output does not want the space as part of the output string.
You have not specified, though, what you want to have happen if there
are spaces within the fields.
--
  "Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of
  obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and
  often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of
  which scholarship consists." -- Walter Pater

roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) wrote in
message <g55s9j$hhc$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
> In article <g55r8q$f4c$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
> Bamba Bolo <hooana@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Hi, I have multiple text strings consisting of two words
> >separated with a "tab" looking something like below:
>
> >one two
>
> >now how do you do to split this string to two separate
> >strings, in this case it would be split to the
strings 'one'
> >and 'two'.
>
> regexp(TheString, '([^ \t][^\t]*)', 'match')
>
> This expression is a bit more complicated than is at first
> obvious because I detect that there is a space after the
tab
> but your output does not want the space as part of the
output string.
> You have not specified, though, what you want to have
happen if there
> are spaces within the fields.
> --
> "Product of a myriad various minds and contending
tongues, compact of
> obscure and minute association, a language has its own
abundant and
> often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary
recognition of
> which scholarship consists." -- Walter
Pater

Hi,

If there are just two words, strtok could be used.
help strtok for more.

with regards,
Nitin

"Bamba Bolo":
<SNIP a matter of english...

> two words separated with a "tab" looking something like
below:
> one two
> now how do you do to split this string to two separate
> strings...

one of the many solutions

     s=sprintf('one\ttwo three\tfour');
     r=regexp(s,'\t','split')
% r = 'one' 'two three' 'four'

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