MATLAB: How to ignore punctuation in a user string while scanning for words (textscan())

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It works perfectly now. thanks to oleg and lucas for ur help! if ur interested, here's how it looks like in the end:
function pushbutton1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
words = get(handles.editbox, 'string'); %scans user input string from editbox
wavdirectory = 'C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2010b\Recordings\';
wordsstring = regexp(words, '\w+', 'match') ; %reads string only, ignores punctuation
[j, k] = size(wordsstring); %stores number of words in user input string
for m = 1:k
  thisfid = [wavdirectory wordsstring{m} '.wav'];
try
  [y, fs] = wavread(thisfid);
  sound(y, fs);
catch
  fprintf(1,'Failed to process file wave "%s" because: ', thisfid);
  lasterror
end
end

Best Answer

This removes the specified punctuation in your word:
regexprep(word, '[-!,.?]', '')
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