erase

Delete substrings within strings

Syntax

newStr = erase(str,match)

newStr = erase(str,match) deletes all occurrences of match in str and returns the remaining text as newStr.

Note

Only Stateflow^® charts that use MATLAB^® as the action language support the erase operator.

Delete a substring from Hello, world!

h = "Hello, world!"
x = erase(h,", world")

Stateflow chart that uses the erase operator in a state.

Results from stateflow chart that uses the erase operator in a state.

This operator does not support structures. For more information about structures in Stateflow, see Access Bus Signals Through Stateflow Structures.

Introduced in R2021b