Re: Another implementation for strrep

[Thomas Treichl]

> This isn't (yet) suitable for replacing strrep since the replacement 
> argument x may have regular expression operators within it.  You will 
> need to escape them before applying the pattern.  Something like the 
> following might work:
>
>   pattern = regexprep(x,'([*+([\\])','\\\1');
>   t = regexprep(s,pattern,y);
>
> You will have to look up the syntax of the regular expression to figure
> out exactly which characters are significant and how to do replacement
> strings.

Right, I didn't thought about these special key combinations. Hhmmm... I'll give 
it another try the following days and if successful reply once again.

> Also, if you can easily gather your strings into a cell array, you 
> should be able to translate all of them at once and save even more time.

So we also could improve the strrep function into something like the regexprep 
function can already do, eg. strrep({"ab","ac"},"a","d"), right?

Thanks a lot,
Thomas