replaceBetween

Replace substrings between start and end points

Syntax

newStr = replaceBetween(str,startPat,endPat,newText)

newStr = replaceBetween(str,startPos,endPos,newText)

newStr = replaceBetween(___,Boundaries=bounds)

Description

newStr = replaceBetween(str,startPat,endPat,newText) replaces the substring in str with the text in newText. replaceBetween does not replace startPat and endPat themselves. The newText argument can have a different number of characters than the substring it replaces.

newStr = replaceBetween(str,startPos,endPos,newText) replaces the substring in str, including the characters at those positions.

newStr = replaceBetween(___,Boundaries=bounds) forces the boundaries specified in the previous syntaxes to be inclusive or exclusive. The boundaries are inclusive when bounds is "inclusive", and exclusive when bounds is "exclusive". For example, replaceBetween(str,startPat,endPat,newText,Boundaries="inclusive") replaces startPat, endPat, and all the text between them with the text specified by newText.

Note

Only Stateflow^® charts that use MATLAB^® as the action language support the replacebetween operator.

Examples

Replace a Substring with a New Substring

h = "Hello, world!"
startPat = "H"
endPat = ","
newText = "owdy"
x = replaceBetween(h,startPat,endPat,newText)

Replace a Substring Between Start and End Positions

h = "Hello, world!"
newText = "owdy"
x = replaceBetween(h,2,6,newText)

Replace a Substring and Specify Inclusive or Exclusive Boundaries

h = "Hello, world!"
startPat = "H"
endPat = "o"
newText = "Howdy"
x = replaceBetween(h,startPat,endPat,newText,Boundaries="inclusive")

h = "Hello, world!"
startPat = "H"
endPat = ","
newText = "owdy"
x = replaceBetween(h,startPat,endPat,newText,Boundaries="exclusive")

Limitations

• This operator does not support structures. For more information about structures in Stateflow, see Access Bus Signals Through Stateflow Structures.

Version History

Introduced in R2021b