remove numbers from a name
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There is a name that have also numbers and letters and characters like '_'. For example:
name='12345_2323_abc_cd'
Now it is needed to remove numbers. And also remove '_' if this character is between numbers (if this character is between letters should not be remove). Then "name" must convert to:
name='abc_cd'
How could I do this converting in MATLAB? Please help.
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Jan
2012-7-8
Beside the powerful regexp methods, a simple approach:
name = '12345_2323_abc_cd';
index = find(isletter(name), 1);
name = name(index:end);
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mohammad
2012-7-8
Image Analyst
2012-7-8
But this won't give the answer you wanted for your case "a" in your comment to me, where you wanted a leading underline. Jan's method doesn't give you the underline as the first character like you asked for. You'd have to check for that case and have an "If" block (like I did) to handle whether or not to strip off the leading underline. Did you make a mistake when you explained the different cases to me?
Mark Whirdy
2012-7-7
welcome to the frustrating world of regular expressions!!
regexp(name,'[a-z]\w+','match')
all the best,
Mark
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mohammad
2012-7-7
Walter Roberson
2012-7-7
This will not remove all numbers: it will only remove numbers if they are before the first lower-case letter. It also will not remove underscores that are between numbers.
mohammad
2012-7-7
Mark Whirdy
2012-7-7
I'm not sure what you're doing exactly but this achieves exactly what was asked (as shown below), if the format of the expression varies from that above, the regular expression may be adapted simply. If for some reason this doesn't work for all your test cases, then if you supply those test cases, I'd be happy to adapt the expression. There is definitely no need for any "for looping" etc
>> regexp('12345_2323_abc_cd','[a-z]\w+','match') ans = 'abc_cd'
Walter Roberson
2012-7-7
Your code would not remove the numbers in abcd678
Now it is needed to remove numbers.
Walter Roberson
2012-7-7
regexprep(name, '\d[0-9_]+\d', '')
This expression makes the guess that underscores should only be removed if there are digits on both sides of them, so for example in 1234_abcd this would become _abcd . This guess is supported by the wording of the Question.
On the other hand, the expression above has the weakness that multiple underscores together will be deleted if the group is between numbers. This is not supported by the wording of the Question. I think that perhaps the below would work to fix that:
regexprep(name, '\d+(?:_(?=\d))?', '')
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mohammad
2012-7-7
Walter Roberson
2012-7-7
Hmmm, the first of those won't work either. The second might.
Image Analyst
2012-7-7
Try this:
% Create the name using the only example we have.
name='12345_2323_abc_cd'
% Find locations of all the underlines.
underlineLocations = find(name == '_', 2, 'first')
% Assume numbers occur earlier than the second underline.
% We have no examples to suggest otherwise.
outputName = name(underlineLocations(2)+1:end)
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Image Analyst
2012-7-7
It's always good to give all variant of your input when you first ask the question. This will do what you asked for the examples you gave:
% Example 1
stringIn = '12345_2323_abc_cd' % want '_abc_cd'
nameOut = regexprep(stringIn, '\d[0-9_]+\d', '')
if stringIn(1) == '_'
nameOut = nameOut(2:end)
end
% Example 2
stringIn = '_abc_cd' % Want 'abc_cd'
nameOut = regexprep(stringIn, '\d[0-9_]+\d', '')
if stringIn(1) == '_'
nameOut = nameOut(2:end)
end
% Example 3
stringIn = '213231_12345_2323_abc_cd' % want '_abc_cd'
nameOut = regexprep(stringIn, '\d[0-9_]+\d', '')
if stringIn(1) == '_'
nameOut = nameOut(2:end)
end
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