Although the example is set up to extract 5 substrings from the text in column b you can easily extract just 1 instance.
Delimit strings mat.
When a program stores sequential or tabular data it delimits each item of data with a predefined character.
Extract just one instance.
Create stream from given string step 2.
A delimiter is one or more characters that separate text strings.
The empty strings represent splits between spaces and sequences of letters that had nothing else between them.
Delimiting characters specified as a character vector a 1 by n cell array of character vectors or a 1 by n string array.
This function is used to read a string or a line from input stream.
Split the string using pat as the delimiter.
Separated string abc xyz hello world 25 c algorithm step 1.
Take item before comma step 2 2.
This matlab function splits str at whitespace into c.
Add item into a vector step 3.
Specify multiple delimiters in a cell array or a string array.
The trim function then removes all extra spaces and returns just the nth string.
While the stream is not completed step 2 1.
It automatically adjusts for the different numbers of columns in your matrices.
Text specified in delimiter does not appear in the output c.
For example to extract just the 4th.
The total characters extracted is equal to the length of the full text string.
This reads the entire data matrix between the date vectors into a numeric matrix inside the cell array dat and the date vectors in dtv.
Common delimiters are commas semicolon quotes braces pipes or slashes.