How do Iget a list from multiple rows?

Hi guys, I have a multiple rows of strings and I want get words that contains "#" all in a single column.

Example:

data = {'he is #coming #today'; 'will #it rain?'};

The desired output:

out = {'#coming';
       '#today';
       '#it'}

Thanks

[Jan]

You forgot the quotes or double quotes. It matters if "strings" means cell strings or the modern string class. Please edit the question and post valid Matlab syntax.

Answer 1

[Jan]

Perhaps these are cell strings:

data    = {'he is #coming #today'; 'will #it rain?'};

words   = strsplit(sprintf('%s ', data{:}), ' ').';
hasHash = ~cellfun('isempty', strfind(words, '#'));
result  = words(hasHash);

There are many other ways. Does the # appear anywhere in the word? The example looks like it is the first character in all cases. Then:

data    = {'he is #coming #today'; 'will #it rain?'};
words   = strsplit(sprintf('%s ', data{:}), ' ').';
result  = words(strncmp(words, '#', 1));

Or:

results = setdiff(words, strrep(words, '#', '*')).'

[Bernard Opoku]

Thanks a lot Jan, that worked perfect!

Answer 2

[Stephen23]

Using a regular expression is trivially easy:

>> data = {'he is #coming #today'; 'will #it rain?'};
>> C = regexpi(data,'#[a-z]+','match');
>> [C{:}]
ans = 
    '#coming'    '#today'    '#it'

[Bernard Opoku]

many thanks Stephen, this is very easy to understand