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Octave supports a wide range of functions for manipulating strings. Since a string is just a matrix, simple manipulations can be accomplished using standard operators. The following example shows how to replace all blank characters with underscores.
quote = ... "First things first, but not necessarily in that order"; quote( quote == " " ) = "_" ⇒ quote = First_things_first,_but_not_necessarily_in_that_order
For more complex manipulations, such as searching, replacing, and general regular expressions, the following functions come with Octave.