Replacing specfic numbers in string

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Dear all,
I have got a substring and an array which look like this
substr={'B0.2Si0.05'};
numarray = [0.184320000000000 0.0460800000000000];
I want to replace the numbers in the substring (0.2, 0.5) in with the numbers from numarray. 0.2 should then become 0.18432 and 0.5 should become 0.04608 respectively. This seems pretty simply but I somehow fail to do it.
I have tried to do
newSubstr = regexprep(substr{1}, '(\d+)(?:\.(\d{1,2}))?', cellfun(@num2str, num2cell(numarray), 'uni', false));
newSubstr =
1×1 cell array
{'B0.046080.04608Si0.046080.04608'}
I also tried using cellstr, sprintfc, strrep but I didn't get what I want :( e.g.
newSubstr = regexprep(substr{1},'(\d+)(?:\.(\d{1,2}))?', sprintfc('%f', numarray))
newSubstr =
1×1 cell array
{'B0.0460800.046080Si0.0460800.046080'}
The solution has to be dynamic e.g. Substr can easily have more components and numarray will always grow with it. I'm sure that I'm missing something very basic here...
Cheers,
Lukas

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Rik
Rik 2020-6-17
Apart from needing to replace the commas in your array by periods, I don't see where you went wrong. The RE seems fine and the way I read the documentation for regexprep this should work as you expected.
Since I can't fix your code, I wrote some new code that should do the same as what you intended:
substr={'B0.2Si0.05'};
numarray = [0.184320000000000 0.0460800000000000];
c=arrayfun(@(x) sprintf('%.5f',x), numarray, 'uni', false);
% or with the undocumented sprintfc:
% c=sprintfc('%.5f', numarray);
re='(\d+)(?:\.(\d{1,2}))?';
split=regexp(substr{1},re,'split');
txt=split(:)';
k=1:min(numel(c),numel(txt));
txt(2,k)=c(k);
txt(cellfun('isempty',txt))={''};
newSubstr=horzcat(txt{:});
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LukasJ
LukasJ 2020-6-17
Thanks for your answer! I‘m sorry about the ,/. mix-up and corrected it.
Your code feels kind of needlessly long tbh :D How can something that simple take so many lines?!
According to api if I feed it (str, regex, cell) it should just fill in the matches with the corresponding cell entry...
Rik
Rik 2020-6-18
I agree that the regexprep should work, but apparently it doesn't work like that.
My code is essentially the same as the code Stephen posted (mine has a small input check when creating k), so if you absolutely need the shortest code possible, feel free to use his.

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Stephen23
Stephen23 2020-6-18
编辑:Stephen23 2020-6-18
>> substr = {'B0.2Si0.05'};
>> numarray = [0.18432,0.04608];
For one element of the cell array substr:
>> spl = regexp(substr{1},'\d+\.?\d*','split');
>> spl(2,1:end-1) = arrayfun(@num2str,numarray,'uni',0);
>> substr{1} = sprintf('%s',spl{1:end-1})
substr =
'B0.18432Si0.04608'
Or to use undocumented sprintfc replace the second line with this (faster):
>> spl(2,1:end-1) = sprintfc('%.6f',numarray);
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Stephen23
Stephen23 2020-6-18
编辑:Stephen23 2020-6-18
"spl appears to be a 1x1 cell"
That probably means that nothing in the string matches the regular expression (i.e the string does not contain numbers with those formats), therefore there is nothing to split the string on, and so regexp returns the complete string unchanged.
Either:
  • you need to specify the input data so that we can help you define a regular expression to cover your actual data which may have different number formats, or
  • you need to include basic special-case handling, e.g. isscalar(spl) and branch your code based on that.
Knowing your exact input data would help us to diagnose this.
LukasJ
LukasJ 2020-6-18
I thought I used the same input with different names but just now noticed that substr was nested twice
substring{1}{1}
I am really sorry.

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