MATLAB: Problem in compare strings

Question

hi,

if I want compare two strings

ex.

str1='Animation|Children's|Comedy'

i want to check just the first word and whatever the others words

str1='Animation*' str2= 'Animation'

i.e can I compare strcmp(str1,str2)?

thanks

Answer 1

Try this

    str1 = 'Animation|Children''s|Comedy';
    str2 = 'Animation*';
    str3 = 'Animation';
    ism = strcmp( str3, regexp( str1, '\|', 'split' ) );
    >> whos ism
      Name      Size            Bytes  Class      Attributes
      ism       1x3                 3  logical              
    >> ism
    ism =
         1     0     0

Note

1. double blip in "Children''s"
2. strcmp make exact comparisons of strings - no wildcards as in 'Animation*';
3. strfind is an alternative to strcmp - see the documentation