How to extract before and after a character up to a certain limit?

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Hey everyone, I'm playing around with extractBefore and extractAfter and I was wondering if I could get Matlab to extract everything before and after a character up to a specified character boundary. Like so,
str = 'aazbbkkcbbsszaa'
I want to take something like this example string and extract all the characters before and after "c" up until it reaches the letter "z". SO my outputs might look like,
extractAfter = 'bbss'
extractBefore = 'bbkk'
How can I do this?

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madhan ravi
madhan ravi il 29 Set 2020
Before = regexp(str, '(?<=\z)(?:.*)(?=\c)', 'match', 'once')
After = regexp(str, '(?<=\c)(?:.*)(?=\z)', 'match', 'once')
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson il 29 Set 2020
Before = regexp(str, '(?<=\z)(?:.*)(?=\c)', 'match', 'once')
In that code, the .* followed by (?=\c) tells regexp to go from the current position (imemdiately following a z) as far as possible towards the end of the string, and then to "back up" until just before a c. An implication of that is that if there are more than one c in the string after the z, that the .* part will match everything up to the last of the c instead of everything up to the first of the c.
You can fix that by changing to (?:.*?) or by using the construct I used, [^c]+

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson il 29 Set 2020
regexp(str, {'(?<=z)[^c]+', '(?<=c)[^z]+'}, 'match','once')
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson il 29 Set 2020
If you wanted to allow for the possibility of an empty match, if the string contained z immediately followed by c, then you should change the [^c]+ to [^c]* . If you want to allow for the possibility of the c being the last character in the string and you want to return empty, then change the [^z]+ to [^z]*

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst il 29 Set 2020
If you want to use those specific functions, I did it by calling them twice, once with c and once with z.
str = 'aazbbkkcbbsszaa'
sb = extractBefore(str, 'c')
sa = extractAfter(str, 'c')
stringBefore = extractAfter(sb, 'z')
stringAfter = extractBefore(sa, 'z')
Of course you could combine them into fewer lines (2 instead of 4), though at the drawback of making it somewhat more cryptic:
stringBefore = extractAfter(extractBefore(str, 'c'), 'z')
stringAfter = extractBefore(extractAfter(str, 'c'), 'z')

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