Removing stop words from single string

Question

My query is string = \'Alligator in water\' where in is a stop word. How can I remove it so that I get stop_remove = \'Alligator water\'

Answer 1

A slightly more elegant way than Luis Mendo's solution is to use regexprep that does exactly what you want

>> result = regexprep( 'Alligator in water', 'in\s*', '' ); % replace with an empty string 
result =    
   Alligator water

If you have several stop words you can simply add them to the pattern (in this example I consider 'in' and 'near' as stop words):

>> result = regexprep( 'Alligator in water near land', {'in\s*','near\s*'}, '' )
result =
   Alligator water land