The expression you're feeding regexpi
with contains a space and is used as a pattern for 'match'
. This is why the matched monthyear
string also has a space1.
If you want to keep it simple and let regexpi
do the work for you (instead of postprocessing its output), try a different approach and capture tokens instead of matching, and ignore the intermediate space:
%// <$1><----------$2---------> <$3>
expr = '(.+)([FGHJKMNQUVXZ]\d{1,2}) (.+)';
tickinfo = regexpi(bbergtickers, expr, 'tokens', 'once');
You can also simplify the expression to a more genereic '(.+)(\w{1}\d{1,2})\s+(.+)'
, if you wish.
Example
bbergtickers = 'MCDZ3 Curncy';
expr = '(.+)([FGHJKMNQUVXZ]\d{1,2})\s+(.+)';
tickinfo = regexpi(bbergtickers, expr, 'tokens', 'once');
The result is:
tickinfo =
'MCD'
'Z3'
'Curncy'
1 This expression is also used as a delimiter for 'split'
. Removing the trailing space from it won't help, as it will reappear in the rootyk
output instead.