Problem 43658. When Was That Goal Scored?

Created by Ned Gulley

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We want to find out when the goals were scored in a particular soccer game. For each game, we are given a "Goal Event Data" XML string from a soccer database. Your job is to pick out the "Elapsed Time" number for each goal. Return the numbers for each goal as a column vector of double precision numbers.This translates to finding the number between the "&lt;elapsed&gt;" tags.ExampleGiven this input<pre> ged = '&lt;goal&gt;&lt;value&gt;&lt;elapsed&gt;22&lt;/elapsed&gt;&lt;subtype&gt;header&lt;/subtype&gt;&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/goal&gt;'</pre>you should return the number 22.Note that you must return the number 22 and not the string.Feature Tip<a href = "https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/release-notes.html?rntext=&startrelease=R2016b&endrelease=R2016b&groupby=release&sortby=descending">R2016b</a> introduces string arrays and text manipulation functions which can help. To learn more see <a href = "https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/characters-and-strings.html">MATLAB Characters and Strings</a>.

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Peng Liu on 18 Nov 2016

Perhaps a new problem group dealing with string arrays, character arrays, and cell arrays of character vectors can be added on Cody.

goc3 on 15 Dec 2016

@"Peng Lui": The first Challenge Group involving strings and the like (Strings I) has been posted.

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James on 12 Jan 2017

And for the poor souls who don't have 2016b...

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Informaton on 19 Aug 2017

This solution no longer passes as of 8/19/2017.

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