How can I replace a loop with arrayfun - problems with strrep

5 views (last 30 days)
Hi, I am trying to replicate the behavior of a loop using arrayfun, but running into problems. The loop that is working looks as follows:
nodes1 ={'RB_AA_AL_CTA'; 'RB_AA_AL_HDGE'; 'RB_AA_CA'; 'RB_AA_EH'; 'RB_AA_EQ_DMLC_EUR'; 'RB_AA_EQ_DMLC_USD'; 'RB_AA_EQ_DMLC_JPY';};
for jj = 1:length(nodes1)
ix_ = find(nodes1{jj}=='_');
if length(ix_) >= 3
nodes1{jj}(ix_(3:end)) = '-';
end
end
The code is trying to achieve the following: It replaces all _ underscores after the 3rd underscore for all entries in nodes1.
I would like to figure out how to translate the loop to an arrayfun. This is the code that I have so far:
nodes2 ={'RB_AA_AL_CTA'; 'RB_AA_AL_HDGE'; 'RB_AA_CA'; 'RB_AA_EH'; 'RB_AA_EQ_DMLC_EUR'; 'RB_AA_EQ_DMLC_USD'; 'RB_AA_EQ_DMLC_JPY';};
lNode=length(nodes2);
temp = arrayfun(@(x) find(nodes2{x}=='_'),1:lNode,'un',false);
temp2 = arrayfun(@(x) length(temp{x}),1:lNode);
temp3 = arrayfun(@(x) temp{x}(3:end),1:lNode,'un',false);
%temp4 = arrayfun(@(x) nodes2{x}(temp3{x})='-',1:lNode,'un',false);
temp4 = arrayfun(@(x) strrep(char(nodes2{x}(temp3{x})),'_','-'),1:lNode,'un',false);
The commented out %temp4 line gives me an error as I am not allowed to use an = sign in the arrayfun function. If I would run:
nodes2{1}(temp3{1})='-'
by itself, then this syntax would give me exactly what I want. My first thought was to then use strrep (last row of code), but even though the code executes, it doesn't replace the _ underscore in nodes2.
Any idea how I can get this to work with arrayfun? Why isn't my approach working? I would like to understand the underlying problem.
Thanks
Sven

Accepted Answer

Sven
Sven on 2 Apr 2015
Edited: Sven on 2 Apr 2015
Hi Sven (congrats on the name),
Here's a pretty direct way to do what you're trying to do. It uses regexp once and cellfun once:
nodes1 ={'RB_AA_AL_CTA'; 'RB_AA_AL_HDGE'; 'RB_AA_CA'; 'RB_AA_EH'; 'RB_AA_EQ_DMLC_EUR'}
% Split each string into the first 3 underscores (tok1) and the rest (tok2)
toks = regexp(nodes1,'(.*?_){3}(.*)','tokens','once');
% Find which strings might actually need replacement
mask = ~cellfun(@isempty,toks);
% Perform replacement on tok2 only and merge it to unreplaced tok1
result = nodes1;
result(mask) = cellfun(@(tok)[tok{1} strrep(tok{2},'_','-')],toks(mask),'Un',0);
Did that help you out?
Thanks, Sven.
  1 Comment
SpeedyGonzales
SpeedyGonzales on 5 Apr 2015
Thanks Sven! Yes, this helped a lot, I just needed to change the regexp command slightly to only read in the portion that is defined by the first two underscores, then it worked perfectly!

Sign in to comment.

More Answers (0)

Categories

Find more on Loops and Conditional Statements in Help Center and File Exchange

Products

Community Treasure Hunt

Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!

Start Hunting!