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Compare, find, and replace strings

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Compare, find, and replace strings

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- [Instructor] Most aspects of a business stay consistent, but other parts change. For example, you might change the code for a particular product feature and want to update the text in your file to reflect that change. In this movie, I will show you how to compare strings, find the sub-strings within a larger string, and replace one string with another. I've started MATLAB and I have a blank command window, so I need to define some variables and strings to work with. I'll start by just defining a variable called str1, equal sign. It's a string, so I'll type a single quote. And I will type in the values arl followed by a single quote and Enter. And note that arl is all lowercase. Now in string two, str2, type an equal sign and a single quote. Let's say that I define a product name, or rather code of 19arl73 followed by a single quote and Enter. Now that I have two strings, a sub-string and a longer string, I can start working with them. The first thing I can do is determine whether…

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