detecting the existence of alphabetical elements
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Dear all, I would like to detect whether a string contains an alphabetical letter. A simple way of solving this problem is writing a function such as. But is there any better, more concise and faster way? Can one use, say, regular expressions and if so how?
thanks, Pat.
function flag=detect_alphabet(mystring)
referenceSet={'a','b','c','d',...,'z'};
flag=false;
for ii=1:length(mystring)
if ismember(mystring(ii),referenceSet)
flag=true;
break
end
end
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Jan
2012-10-1
编辑:Jan
2012-10-1
flag = any(ismember(mystring, 'a':'z'))
But now I'm lost in the incompatibilities of Matlab versions. Perhaps it must now be:
flag = any(ismember(mystring, char('a':'z')))
Alternatively:
flag = any(mystring >= 'a' & mystring <= 'z')
Or:
flag = any(isstrprop(mystring, 'lower'))
In all cases a loop is not required.
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Patrick Mboma
2012-10-1
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Image Analyst
2012-10-1
Well for what it's worth, I was going to answer isletter() until Matt beat me to it.
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