{"id":2327,"date":"2016-05-26T11:06:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T16:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2016-06-01T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:25:14","slug":"creating-a-matlab-function-to-split-a-url-into-component-parts-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2016\/05\/26\/creating-a-matlab-function-to-split-a-url-into-component-parts-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a MATLAB Function to Split a URL into Component Parts, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often need to break up a URL string into components such as protocol, hostname, file path, query parameters, etc. Here, I create a function to\u00a0do this, similar to the <tt>fileparts<\/tt> function in MATLAB.<\/p>\n<p>Topics\u00a0I cover in this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/10\/29\/matlab-code-along-videos\/\">code-along<\/a> style video include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing a function<\/li>\n<li>Writing tests for functions using\u00a0<tt>assert<\/tt><\/li>\n<li>Matching regular expressions using\u00a0<tt>regexp<\/tt><\/li>\n<li>Using data types including char arrays, \u00a0structures (accessed via\u00a0dynamic field names)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"4899259059001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Play the video in full screen mode for a better viewing experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2016\/05\/26\/creating-a-matlab-function-to-split-a-url-into-component-parts-part-1\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/fceb0fbc-2981-4237-a893-898bd79b2518\/a2f0702b-6325-48a7-9b29-6281d3c5a0dc\/160x90\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">51:49<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>I often need to break up a URL string into components such as protocol, hostname, file path, query parameters, etc. Here, I create a function to\u00a0do this, similar to the fileparts function in&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2016\/05\/26\/creating-a-matlab-function-to-split-a-url-into-component-parts-part-1\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}