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Hi
I have the following:
test = '''any word'''
which creates a char array containing the word with quotes
now i want to find the position of the quotes:
out = findstr(test,' '' ' )
but this doesn't work and returns an empty array. Can someone please explain how to do this and also why i cant use the escape sequence for single quotes i used to create the word in the first place.
Im using R2008b
Thanks
Matt

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Oleg Komarov
Oleg Komarov on 5 Aug 2011
strfind(test,'''')
With ' '' ' you are looking for < blank>'<blank>
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Matthew O'Brien
Matthew O'Brien on 5 Aug 2011
very fast answer! Thanks alot....sometimes the simple things causes all the problems :)
Jan
Jan on 5 Aug 2011
And if this heap of quotes looks confusing:
strfind(test, char(39)).

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