can you please tell me how to remove any special characters from a string in MATLAB?

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special characters include anything else from alphabets(a-z) and(A-Z)

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Stalin Samuel
Stalin Samuel on 12 May 2015
%for example
s='matlab@123'
s(isletter(s)==0)=[];
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 12 May 2015
It is what you defined. isletter() is true only for a-z and A-Z . If you want to leave digits alone then you need to define digits as being not "special characters"

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