Read specific string in a large text lines

I have lines in a text file like this

</TypeInfo><TypeMaxValue>65535</TypeMaxValue>  <TypeMinValue>0</TypeMinValue><Name>Rick</Name>

How can I textscan and bring just

<Name>Rick</Name>

into my cell array?

Answer 1

[Brian Hannan]

Check out regexp. Something like

regexp(myString, 'Name>\w*</Name')

will do the trick.

[Stephen23]

Praveen Choudhury's "Answer" moved here:

It does not give me Rick as an answer.

[Stephen23]

You need to add the 'match' argument (and alter the regular expression a little bit too):

>> regexp(S, '<Name>\w*</Name>','match')
ans = <Name>Rick</Name>

[Praveen Choudhury]

Thanks! It worked.

[Praveen Choudhury]

How can I extract a word where the word contains symbols, brackets as well as numbers?

See the attached of what I am talking. I am unable to extract the words in variable B.

[Brian Hannan]

Take a look at the regexp documentation for some ideas. There's an example over there that solves this problem. It's titled "Capture Substrings of Matches Using Ordinal Tokens".