Regular Expression pattern for matching a variable name after an operator (mathematical or logical) ?

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Hello, i am new to regular expressions and using regexprep as well. I want to write a function which replaces names of variables with a given new name. The expression i used first was (^|\W)oldName(\W|$) and $1newName$2 as the replacement.
Unfourtunatly this will not replace expressions like variableA*variableA or variableB+variableB. The second factor or summand is not replaced so i have to do regexp() twice. Secondly i tried the expression (^*|\W)oldName(\W|$) which will replace the second factor in the example above, but will also replace the name in something like this: thisvariableA.
matchPattern = (^|\W)oldName(\W|$);
replacePattern = $1newName$2;
StringContent = 'oldName*oldName';
ContentNew = regexprep(StringContent , replacePattern , matchPattern);
So i am looking for a regexp pattern which matches 'oldName' also after an operator which follows after and before'oldName'. A way to match the given example would help.

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Stephen23
Stephen23 le 3 Août 2018
Modifié(e) : Stephen23 le 3 Août 2018
>> regexprep('variableA*variableA','(?<=\W)\w+','newName')
ans = variableA*newName
>> regexprep('variableB+variableB','(?<=\W)\w+','newName')
ans = variableB+newName
Your specification is quite vague: do you want to replace all of the instances of variableX with newName, or only the one after the operator (as your title states)? To learn how to write regular expressions read this page very carefully, and refer to it all the time:
You might also be interested in downloading my FEX submission iregexp, which provides an interactive tool for experimenting with regular expressions and showing regexp's outputs as you type:
It is useful for quickly experimenting with and refining regular expressions.
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Stephen23
Stephen23 le 3 Août 2018
Modifié(e) : Stephen23 le 3 Août 2018
"Yes i want to replace specific names of variables within a .m-file content"
Hopefully you are not doing some kind of meta-programing! You can simply use the MATLAB editor to search-and-replace variable names (it even does this intelligently, only replacing the whole variable name as you want).
"I do not want to replace the name WITHIN another name..."
Did you try the code I gave in my last example? It seems to do exactly what you are asking for:
>> str = 'VariableA*VariableB but not ThisVariableA VariableA+VariableA';
>> rgx = '\<VariableA\>';
>> rpl = 'newName';
>> regexprep(str,rgx,rpl)
ans = newName*VariableB but not ThisVariableA newName+newName
Kai Teschner
Kai Teschner le 6 Août 2018
Thanks, @Stephen Cobeldick your example works. This helped me a lot. Regular Expressions are a very interesting topic.
Hopefully you are not doing some kind of meta-programing!
Haha, yes i am aware of search and replace functions and shortcuts, but my goal was to automize replacement as far as possible.

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Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski le 3 Août 2018
Modifié(e) : Sean de Wolski le 3 Août 2018
You may wish to consider using the shift+enter option in the MATLAB editor.
Find where variableA is defined for the first time or anywhere it is on the left of the = sign. E.g:
function(variableA)
or
variableA = something
Put the mouse cursor in it.
Change name by typing.
A yellow dialog will appear saying shift+enter to rename everywhere.
Hit shift+enter
Done.

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