MATLAB: Concatenating strings w/ character with while loops

#whileloop #concatenate

I need to concatenate the elements of firstname until it contains the whole first name(nate) of myname.
myname = 'Nate Johnson';
firstname = '';
length(myname)
f = strcat(myname, g);
while length(myname) < 7
  firstname = myname;
  x = myname;
end
disp(x)

Best Answer

>> myname = 'Nate Johnson';
>> split(myname)
ans =
  2×1 cell array
    {'Nate'   }
    {'Johnson'}
>>
presuming the next step would be to also isolate lastname.
Or, alternatively
>> firstname=extractBefore(myname,' ')
firstname =
    'Nate'
>>
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