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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Yes, I was frustrated with not being able to get parts of a string by addressing <SPAN id=misspell-0>myString</SPAN>(4:6) and was looking around to find combinations of [] and (). Thank you for clarifying.</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" id=yiv1919112185>On 09/26/2011 08:12 PM, Jerry Wang wrote:
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<DIV>I'm new to scilab, so please excuse the simple question. (I had searched a few hours and can't find answer)</DIV>
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<DIV>How do I address part of a string?</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">For example:</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN id=misspell-5>myString</SPAN> = "<SPAN id=misspell-6>abcdefg</SPAN>"</DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">How do I get characters 4:6, which would be"def"?</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>Use the part function.<BR><BR>BTW one of the best feature of scilab (compared to <SPAN id=misspell-8>matlab</SPAN>) is it's ability to have matrices of strings (with different sizes) because a string is an object.<BR>When doing <SPAN id=misspell-9>myString</SPAN> = "<SPAN id=misspell-10>abcdefg</SPAN>" you are creating a 1x1 matrix (similarly a=2.3 is matrix).<BR>You can see that by typing <SPAN id=misspell-11>myString</SPAN>(1).<BR>
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<DIV>Thank you.</DIV>
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