How to display each individual word of a string

hi all,

How can I display each word of a string individual? I wrote a loop, but it does not work.

[Jan]

How are the "words" separated? What about commas and full stops?

Answer 1

[Mischa Kim]

Use

my_str = strsplit('This is a test');

for ii = 1:length(my_str)
    display(my_str{ii});
end

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

str='How to display each individual word of a string'
out=regexp(str,' ','split')

[Bob]

.

Answer 3

[vikash kumar]

word_loc = find(sentence==' ' | sentence =='.');
count = size(word_loc,2);
words = cell(count,1);
prev=1;
for i=1:count
    words{i}= sentence(prev:word_loc(i)-1);
    prev = word_loc(i)+1;    
end

[Walter Roberson]

The difficulty with this is that it splits numbers like 3.14 and it splits abbreviations like "e.g."