MATLAB: Selecting part of a string

modifying a string

I have a list of file names in a variable called file_name e.g:

[a.txt b.txt c.txt d.txt]

I would like to create a new variable which only contains:

[a b c d]

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance Matt

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surely not the best way to do it but here is my way

v=['a.txt' 'b.txt' 'c.txt' 'd.txt']
cell2mat(arrayfun(@(x)strtok(x,'.txt'),v,'uni',false))

v=['a.txt' 'b.txt' 'c.txt' 'd.txt']'
cell2mat(arrayfun(@(x)strtok(x,'.txt'),v,'uni',false))

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