Getting parts of string with for loop

Hi hopefully u can help me!

I have the attached string (picture) and now i want to get from every string in every column the word between the last \ and dot. So for example for the first column i would like to get Gös-Schb2_Ma142-Schb.

The problem is that i will have files later with a different pattern. So its important that i can find with the code the last backslash and dot. My code is:

pointLocation = strfind(A, '.');
underlineLocation = strfind(A, '\');
firstPart = A(underlineLocation(end):pointLocation(end));

But its not working at all...maybe u can help me?

[Stephen23]

Don't reinvent the wheel:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fileparts.html

[Benedikt Skurk]

Sorry but i dont get it!

That is just for filenames i guess and to seperate filename and path. But i have strings in a table right? Dont know how i can work with that.

[Stephen23]

"That is just for filenames i guess..."

The function has no idea if the input text is a filename of not. It just identifies the relevant separator characters.

"...and to seperate filename and path"

and file extension.

"But i have strings in a table right?"

That is the very first time you used the term table. Your screenshot shows a 1x408 string array, not a table.

"Dont know how i can work with that."

You could try using fileparts. The loop probably isn't required either.

[Mathieu NOE]

hello

so what does your code generate ?

is it possible for you to send a few examples of strings ?

Answer 1

[Prudhvi Peddagoni]

Hi,

As Stephen Cobeldick pointed out. fileparts function does exactly what you are looking for. the second output, name, is the part of the string that is after last '/' and before last '.'. So you can get the strings from a table and give it to this function.

Hope this helps.