Remove "( )" from string words
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Hi I need to Remove "()" from any word in DataBase.
My Database(cell) have string words such as:
'NEW' 'May' '(AFP)' 'US' 'prosecutors' 'on' 'Friday' 'unveiled' 'indictment' 'including' 'charges' 'of' 'murder' 'and' 'loan' 'sharking' 'against' . . . .
So, I need to Remove "(" and ")" from (AFP). because My word should be : AFP
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Robert Cumming
on 19 Oct 2014
regexp is very compact and powerful - however it can be a bit slow.
If speed is an issue a simple for loop and strrep can sometimes be faster:
db = { 'NEW' 'May' '(AFP)' 'US' 'prosecutors' 'on' };
pattern = '\(|)';
tic
newdb = regexprep(db, pattern, '');
toc
tic
loopDB = db;
for ii=1:length(db)
loopDB{ii} = strrep ( db{ii}, '(', '' );
loopDB{ii} = strrep ( loopDB{ii}, ')', '' );
end
toc
isequal ( newdb, loopDB )
Elapsed time is 0.002665 seconds.
Elapsed time is 0.000087 seconds.
ans =
1
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Jan
on 19 Oct 2014
strrep operates on cell strings directly:
loopDB = strrep(db, '(', '');
loopDB = strrep(loopDB, ')', '');
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Alberto
on 19 Oct 2014
You should use regexprep to replace anything that matches with parenthesis with an empty string; the pattern that matches any parenthesis shoul be:
pattern = '(\(|\))';
Its necessary to scape ( or ) using \( or \). See the examples:
>> texto = '(AFP)';
regexprep(texto, '(\(|\))', '')
ans =
AFP
>> texto = {'(AFP)','(cro'};
regexprep(texto, '(\(|\))', '')
ans =
'AFP' 'cro'
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Guillaume
on 19 Oct 2014
Note that you don't need to surround the alternation with brackets and you don't need to escape the closing bracket, so this simpler pattern would work just as well:
pattern = '\(|)';
newdb = regexprep(db, pattern, '');
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