OR condition in regexp

Hi all, i've a problem here when checking for the regular expression of strings in a cell.
Let
x = {'width = "13" height = "2"'
'width = "12" height = "90"'
'width = "2" height="5"'
'width = "0" height="5"'
'width = "20" height="5"'
'width = "1" height="0"'
'width = "20" height="50"'};
I use this two statement to find the width and height which smaller than 10.
width = find(~cellfun('isempty',regexp(html_only, 'width\s?=\s?"\s?[0-9]\s?"', 'match')));
height = find(~cellfun('isempty',regexp(html_only, 'height\s?=\s?"\s?[0-9]\s?"', 'match')));
How to make it to check for either width or height is smaller than 10. I code like this, but it cant work, and error prompted out.
width = find(~cellfun('isempty',regexp(html_only, 'width\s?=\s?"\s?[0-9]\s?"' | 'height\s? =\s?"\s?[0-9]\s?"', 'match')));

Answers (1)

Jos (10584)
Jos (10584) on 10 Apr 2014

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Again , approach this in two steps. First extract the numbers and then apply the condition.
As you have found out, it is much harder to code this in a single obfuscated line ...

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Jacky
Jacky on 10 Apr 2014
Edited: Jacky on 10 Apr 2014
Thanks for your reply, i able to make it in one statement
find(~cellfun('isempty',regexp(x, 'width\s?=\s?"\s?[0-9]\s?"', 'match') | regexp(x, 'height\s?=\s?"\s?[0-9]\s?"', 'match')));
and in several lines also
w1 = regexp(x, 'width\s?=\s?"\s?[0-9]\s?"', 'match');
h1 = regexp(x, 'height\s?=\s?"\s?[0-9]\s?"', 'match');
find(~cellfun('isempty', w1) | ~cellfun('isempty', h1));
Which one is more preferable?
Which code is easier to understand?

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