Find string with options (*)

Hi,

I have a cell of strings that I want to see if any of them match a certain string pattern. The string pattern can be something like 'Object(1)=' or Object(123)='. So basically 'Object(*)=' where the asterisk represents a number. Is there a function in Matlab that has a feature that can search strings like that?

Horace

Answer 1

[José-Luis]

expr = 'Object\([0-9]*\)='; %Regular expression  
bla = 'asad ca Object(0)= asdas Object(k)=asdObject(1999)='; %string to search  
your_idx = regexp(bla,expr); %Returns starting index of matches

Note that you can also get the index of the ending of the matches, the matched strings themselves, etc... For more details please look at:

 doc regexp

[Horace Lai]

Thanks. Just what I was looking for

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

s='123 sdd5 Object(1)= 25 333sss'
idx=strfind(s,'Object(1)=')

%or

k=123
pattern=sprintf('Object(%d)=',k)
s='123 sdd5 Object(123)= 25 333sss'
idx=strfind(s,pattern)

[Horace Lai]

Hi, thanks for the response. But it wasn't really what I was looking for. I am looking for a solution where you do not know the number before hand. In your first example you knew the number was 1 and in the second you knew hte number was 123.

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

idx=regexp(s,'Object\(\d*\)=')