How to extract numbers from a string?

xx = '[10,10]'

I want to convert the string xx to a number and extract the first and second value in a single line. What I am trying to do is extract the 1st and 2nd value without storing them in any variable.

Is there any solution to this? Thanks!

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

sscanf(xx, '[%d, %d]', [1,inf])
%or
str2double(regexp(xx, '\d*', 'match'))

[John Doe]

Thanks Madhan for the prompt reply.

Could you please tell me what to do if I want to extract the second value only from xx?

[madhan ravi]

Rather complicated:

 subsref(str2double(regexp(xx,'\d*','match')), substruct('()', {2}))

[John Doe]

Thanks! My day is saved!