MATLAB: Find the string into an special bracket

Question

Hello All, I have a string.

Ex: str = 'abc = "xyz";'

I want to use regexp command to find out "xyz" in below string.

my patern :

pat = '^=.;$'

with meaning (as my understanding)

_^= : beginning with =

. : get all thing between

;$ : ending with ;_

and run with

tk = regexp(str, pat) –> tk = [] in result

what wrong with my commands?

Thanks!

Answer 1

• ^ is the start of the string, not of the searched pattern.
• Equivalently $ is the end of the string, not the pattern, too.

What about:

regexp(str, '"(.*?)"', 'match')

or

regexp(str, '"([^"]*)"', 'match')