Refer to the character ' in a string

Hi, i'm trying to write an algorithm to remove the character ' from a string, say for example: string='you're';

where I want to remove the ' to make the string 'youre' I get errors when I try to refer to a character as ''' though,

is there something I'm missing?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

string(string == '''') = '';

[Edward]

Doesn't work for me, what I really need is:

a='you're';
strcmp(''',a(4))

giving a correct output

[Image Analyst]

Why do it that way, which is dependent on the apostrophe being in the 4th position rather than the more general way Walter suggested? Heck if you're going to assume that, then you might as well do

a(4) = [];

or

a = [a(1:3), a(5:end)];

Perhaps what you were trying to do is this:

apostrophe = ''''
a= ['you', apostrophe, 're']
quoteLocation = strfind(a, apostrophe)

apostrophe =
'
a =
you're
quoteLocation =
     4

[Walter Roberson]

strcmp('''', a)