Why do strfind and regexp may lead to a different result?

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pietro 2017-6-12

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Hi all,

I noticed that regexp and strfind may lead to different results. Here an example:

regexp('Infinitely Variable Transmission (IVT)','Infinitely Variable Transmission (IVT)')

Why does it occur?

Thanks

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pietro 2017-6-12

pardon, I pasted the wrong example.

Stephen23 2017-6-12

编辑：Stephen23 2017-6-12

@pietro: if you are planning on using regular expressions then you really need to understand the different meta-characters, such as parentheses. A good place to learn about regular expressions in MATLAB is to read the MATLAB documentation:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/regular-expressions.html

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Adam 2017-6-12

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编辑：Adam 2017-6-12

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regexp( 'Infinitely Variable Transmission (IVT)', 'Infinitely Variable Transmission \(IVT\)' )

works, but you have to escape the parenthesis as they have special meaning in a regexp expression.

if you look in

doc regexp

in the section headed 'Split Text at Delimiter Using split Keyword', there is an example of this for escaping the ^ symbol.

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pietro 2017-6-13

ahh you're right! Thanks

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Walter Roberson 2017-6-12

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In the general case, regexp can return different results if the pattern includes metacharacters.

There is a routine that can be used to "escape" characters so that they are treated literally, but the routine name is not coming to mind at the moment.