Creating a MATLAB Function to Split a URL into Component Parts, Part 1

From the series: Creating a MATLAB Function to Split a URL into Component Parts

Stuart McGarrity, MathWorks

(Originally posted on Stuart's MATLAB Videos blog.)

I often need to break up a URL string into components such as protocol, hostname, file path, query parameters, etc. Here, I create a function to do this, similar to the fileparts function in MATLAB.

Topics I cover in this code-along style video include:

Writing a function
Writing tests for functions using assert
Matching regular expressions using regexp
Using data types including char arrays, structures (accessed via dynamic field names)

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Recorded: 26 May 2016

Series: Creating a MATLAB Function to Split a URL into Component Parts

51:49

Part 1 Here, I create a function to break up a URL string into components such as protocol, hostname, file path, query parameters, similar to the fileparts function in MATLAB.

1:06:12

Part 2 This code-along video is the second in a series where I’m creating a MATLAB function to split a URL into component parts. Here I add more tests, return more components, and add a parameter to specify which components to return.

22:09

Part 3 This code-along video is the third in a series where I’m creating a MATLAB function to split a URL into component parts. Here I update another script to make use of this new function but it turns into a pretty slow debugging exercise.