MATLAB: “Find and Replace” in Matlab Editor

Question

Hi there,

is there a way to specifically search (and replace) only in code lines or only in commented text?

Thanks

Answer 1

I don't think this is a feature in Matlab's find & replace utility.

You could write your own code to do this though - just open a function as a text file and search for the word you want to replace. If it occurs after a % symbol it is probably a comment if not it is probably code.

The problem would be that many functions working with strings (such as sprintf) also utilise % symbols, so that would require some thought. The Matlab editor can differentiate comments from code though, so there may be some Matlab internal function you could utilise for that.

M.