how get over ' | ' ?

hi,

this is sample of my data:

 "1|Toy Story (1995)|01-Jan-1995||"

I wrote this code to get over '|' in these data :

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f=fopen('u2.txt','r');
b=fscanf(f,'%s');
for i=1:length(b)
    if b(i)=='|'
         b(i)=[];
    end
 end

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but, I got error

how I get over this character '|'?

thanks

Answer 1

[bym]

one possible solution without for loop

    b(b=='|')=[]

b =

1Toy Story (1995)01-Jan-1995

[EDIT]

b =

1|Toy Story (1995)|01-Jan-1995||

   for i=1:length(b) if b(i)=='|' b(i)=' '; end; end 

b =

1 Toy Story (1995) 01-Jan-1995

[huda nawaf]

thanks, i get it.

but if I want use if for another reason ,what can I do?

[bym]

you can use the if statement to insert a space ' ' rather than deleting the character with []. That way, the length of b stays the same and the for loop completes without error

[Fangjun Jiang]

Or, do the for-loop backward.

for i=length(b):-1:1

if b(i)=='|'

b(i)=[];

end

end

Answer 2

[Jan]

Another solution:

b = strrep(b, '|', '');