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

You can use strread:

str = 'johndoe@hotmail.com';
[a b] = strread(str, '%s %s', 'delimiter','@')
a = 
    'johndoe'
b = 
    'hotmail.com'