Find Numbers in a String

Finds flaoting point numbers in a string including: complex, real, integers, and currency (dollars).
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Updated 30 Sep 2008

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find_nums finds all of the numbers in a string and returns an numeric array, nums, with all of the numbers that were found. By specifying flag as 1,2,3 or 4, the program will find: complex numbers, real numbers, integers, or currency (dollars) respectively.

Also a cell array of the matched string is returned. The cell array maybe useful for reprinting numbers in a new table, using a different parsing method to extract the numbers, or reformatting such as removing spaces.

Cite As

Edward Zechmann (2026). Find Numbers in a String (https://se.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/21618-find-numbers-in-a-string), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2007b
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
Windows macOS Linux
Version Published Release Notes
1.0.0.0