MATLAB: Read part of string

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I have mat file like 'name.mat'

 name(1,1) = Italy
 name(2,1) = Rome, Italy

And I want to get 'Rome'.

I do not know the function that I want.

Please help me.

Best Answer

This will work, but no guarantee that it will easily generalise to more complicated situations:

name(1,1) = {'Italy'};
name(2,1) = {'Rome, Italy'};
x = findstr(name{2},',');
y = name{2}(1:x-1)

produces:

y =
Rome

This is only one way (and probably the simplest). There are many others.

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  'Sustainable Industrial Systems, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali - Produzione, Territorio, Agroenergia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy';
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