Re: Extracting a part of a string

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 25, 2012, at 8:52 PM, hersala wrote:

> Dear users,
> 
> Please, how can I extract a part (date) of a string like this:
> 
> EAA-F54-20091023.bin
> 
> Or if exist an analogous to this command taken from GrADS software?
> subwrd (string, n)  # Gets a single word from a string. The result is the nth 
> word of string.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Hernán

Does this inline function do what you're looking for?

        subwrd = @(str,n) strsplit (str, "-."){n};
        subwrd ("EAA-F54-20091023.bin", 3)
        ans = 20091023

Ben