Searching for a particular substring in a Text file

Hi everyone, I am searching for a particular part of my text file. I used textscan but the problem is I don’t know formatSpec well. My text file context looks like this:

/SoftwareComponents/DistMgr /SoftwareComponents/Dummy

I would like to get child names of SoftwareComponents, Actually the output must be:

    ans{1}= DistMgr 
    ans{2}= Dummy

It is my pleasure if someone can help. Thank you

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

It's not exactly clear what the actual format of your text file is. Are all entries just separated by one space?

Anyway, if the file consists just of a series of text strings, I wouldn't use textscan for that. I would simply read the whole file in one go, then use a regular expression to get the result:

filecontent = fileread('c:\somewhere\somefile.txt');
scchildren = regexp(filecontent, '(?<=/SoftwareComponents/)\w+', 'match')

Note that the above regular expression assumes that the name of a child consists only of characters from the set [A-Za-z_0-9].

[Saeed Soltani]

Thanks for your answer. Yes it is .txt file and sentences are separated only with a space.

But the final answer of your solution is:

scchildren =

       []

[Guillaume]

Do'h! I forgot to pass filecontent to regexp. Fixed now, sorry about that.

[Saeed Soltani]

Right, Thank you man.