Clean characters of strings in column

Hello Everyone,

I downloaded and loaded a dataset for NBA players. I would like to clean column Players to get just player names in that column. How would I do that? I have shown sample of output below. This is a second column from my table.

PLAYER

"Steven Adams\adamsst01"

"Bam Adebayo\adebaba01"

"LaMarcus Aldridge\aldrila01"

"Kyle Alexander\alexaky01"

"Nickeil Alexander-Walker\alexani01"

"Grayson Allen\allengr01"

"Jarrett Allen\allenja01"

"Kadeem Allen\allenka01"

"Al-Farouq Aminu\aminual01"

"Justin Anderson\anderju01"

"Kyle Anderson\anderky01"

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

regexprep(Players, '\\.*', '')

[Kushal Kharel]

Thank you @Walter Roberson. I appreicate your support.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

for k = 1 : length(players)
    thisPlayer = players{k}; % get this string.
    slashLocation = find(thisPlayer == '\', 1, 'first') % Find location of slash
    if ~isempty(slashLocation)
        players{k} = thisPlayer(1 : slashLocation-1); % if a slash was found, take up until just before that slash location.
    end
end

[Kushal Kharel]

Thank you image analyst but this code does not help. Walter code works perfectly. Thank you for your continuous support to me to learn MATLAB. I will be sharing my journey towards data science with you all who supported me.