How to apply function "strrep" to multiple substrings

Hi there,

It would be my great pleasure if anyone could assist me with the following error, caused after I applied strrep:

newIDFFile = strrep(readIDFFile, {'@@P1@@', num2str(u_gen_s)}, {'@@P2@@', num2str(u_gen_w)}, {'@@P3@@', num2str(u_gen_e)}, {'@@P4@@', num2str(u_gen_n)}); 

Also, I tried the following format:

newIDFFile = strrep(readIDFFile, '@@P1@@', num2str(u_gen_s), '@@P2@@', num2str(u_gen_w), '@@P3@@', num2str(u_gen_e), '@@P4@@', num2str(u_gen_n));  

while the error message is:

Error using strrep

Too many input arguments.

[Fangjun Jiang]

The syntax is in "doc strrep".

Answer 1

[Bruno Luong]

newIDFFile = ...
    strrep( ...
    strrep(...
    strrep( ...
    strrep(readIDFFile, ...
    '@@P1@@', num2str(u_gen_s)), ...
    '@@P2@@', num2str(u_gen_w)), ...
    '@@P3@@', num2str(u_gen_e)), ...
    '@@P4@@', num2str(u_gen_n));

[Mohammad Dabbagh]

Thanks! It really helped!

[Mohammad Dabbagh]

Hi @Bruno Luong

It would be also my great pleasure if you could help me with the same question, while I need to write strrep for more than 32 substrings. It shows me the following error:

Error using objective (line 2)

Error: File: building_model.m Line: 260 Column: 11

Nesting of {, [, and ( cannot exceed a depth of 32.

Thanks!