Finding a specific character in a string in Matlab

Question

Suppose I have a string \'johndoe@hotmail.com\'. I want to store the string before and after \"@\" into 2 separate strings. What would be the easiest method of

Answer 1

STRTOK and an index operation should do the trick:

str = 'johndoe@hotmail.com';
[name,address] = strtok(str,'@');
address = address(2:end);

Or the last line could also be:

address(1) = '';