How can I access char elements from the beginning up to some fixed index of the char?

a = char(abdefghijk);

I want the output 'abcdefg'

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

a(1:6)

[Daniel]

Thank You!

Answer 2

[Vikram Ojha]

>> a='abcdefghijk'

>> a(1:5)

ans =

'abcde'

In genral a(1:n) % n for index

You can consider going through following doc: https://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/string.html, it will be helpful

Array doc: https://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/math/array-indexing.html

Cell doc: https://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/access-data-in-a-cell-array.html

In case you want you can take Matlab fundamental certification: https://matlabacademy.mathworks.com/details/matlab-fundamentals/mlbe

[Daniel]

Thank you!

Answer 3

[Steven Lord]

The extractBefore function will work both for char arrays and strings.