" His tender heir might bear his memory:"
" But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,"
" Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,"
" Making a famine where abundance lies,"
Replace some punctuation marks with space characters. For example, replace periods, commas, and
semi-colons. Keep apostrophes because they can be part of some words in the Sonnets, such as
light's.
p = [".","?","!",",",";",":"];
sonnets = replace(sonnets,p," ");
sonnets(1:10)
ans = 10x1 string
"THE SONNETS"
"by William Shakespeare"
" I"
" From fairest creatures we desire increase "
" That thereby beauty's rose might never die "
" But as the riper should by time decease "
" His tender heir might bear his memory "
" But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes "
" Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel "
" Making a famine where abundance lies "
Strip leading and trailing space characters from each element of sonnets.
sonnets = strip(sonnets);
sonnets(1:10)
ans = 10x1 string
"THE SONNETS"
"by William Shakespeare"
"I"
"From fairest creatures we desire increase"
"That thereby beauty's rose might never die"
"But as the riper should by time decease"
"His tender heir might bear his memory"
"But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes"
"Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel"
"Making a famine where abundance lies"
Split sonnets into a string array whose elements are individual words. You can use the split
function to split elements of a string array on whitespace characters, or on delimiters that you
specify. However, split requires that every element of a string array must be divisible into an equal
number of new strings. The elements of sonnets have different numbers of spaces, and therefore are
not divisible into equal numbers of strings. To use the split function on sonnets, write a for-loop
that calls split on one element at a time.
Create the empty string array sonnetWords using the strings function. Write a for-loop that splits
each element of sonnets using the split function. Concatenate the output from split onto
sonnetWords. Each element of sonnetWords is an individual word from sonnets.
sonnetWords = strings(0);
for i = 1:length(sonnets)
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" But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,"
" Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,"
" Making a famine where abundance lies,"
Replace some punctuation marks with space characters. For example, replace periods, commas, and
semi-colons. Keep apostrophes because they can be part of some words in the Sonnets, such as
light's.
p = [".","?","!",",",";",":"];
sonnets = replace(sonnets,p," ");
sonnets(1:10)
ans = 10x1 string
"THE SONNETS"
"by William Shakespeare"
" I"
" From fairest creatures we desire increase "
" That thereby beauty's rose might never die "
" But as the riper should by time decease "
" His tender heir might bear his memory "
" But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes "
" Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel "
" Making a famine where abundance lies "
Strip leading and trailing space characters from each element of sonnets.
sonnets = strip(sonnets);
sonnets(1:10)
ans = 10x1 string
"THE SONNETS"
"by William Shakespeare"
"I"
"From fairest creatures we desire increase"
"That thereby beauty's rose might never die"
"But as the riper should by time decease"
"His tender heir might bear his memory"
"But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes"
"Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel"
"Making a famine where abundance lies"
Split sonnets into a string array whose elements are individual words. You can use the split
function to split elements of a string array on whitespace characters, or on delimiters that you
specify. However, split requires that every element of a string array must be divisible into an equal
number of new strings. The elements of sonnets have different numbers of spaces, and therefore are
not divisible into equal numbers of strings. To use the split function on sonnets, write a for-loop
that calls split on one element at a time.
Create the empty string array sonnetWords using the strings function. Write a for-loop that splits
each element of sonnets using the split function. Concatenate the output from split onto
sonnetWords. Each element of sonnetWords is an individual word from sonnets.
sonnetWords = strings(0);
for i = 1:length(sonnets)
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