MATLAB Programming

3 Basic Program Components
Quantifiers (Continued)
Operator
expr+
q_expr*
q_expr+
q_expr?
Usage
Match expr when it occurs 1 or more times
consecutively. Equivalent to {1,}.
Matchasmuchofthequantified expression as possible,
where q_expr represents any of the expressions shown
in the first six rows of this table.
Matchasmuchofthequantified expression as possible,
but do not rescan any portions of the string if the initial
match fails.
Matchonlyasmuchofthequantifiedexpressionas
necessary.
Ordinal Token Operators
Operator
(expr)
Usage
Capture in a token all characters matched by the
expression within the parentheses.
\N Match the N th token generated by this command. That is,
use \1 to match the first token, \2 to match the second,
and so on.
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