strrep

Find and replace substrings

Syntax

newStr = strrep(str,old,new)

newStr = strrep(str,old,new) replaces all occurrences of old in str with new.

Note

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

Replace the substring Hello with Howdy.

h = "Hello, world!"
x = strrep(h, "Hello", "Howdy")

Stateflow chart that uses the strrep operator in a state.

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

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