I have a Table where one of the columns contains text elements separated by commas. I want to keep the first element (if there is only one) or the first two (if the are more than one). There also could be empty lines. For example, from:
abcd, efgh, tyui
[]
lkjh, poiu
wert

I want to get
abcd, efgh
[]
lkjh, pou
wert

I know how to do this with a for loop. But the idea would be to use regular expressions or something similar to accelerate the process. The Table has almost 2M elements.
Any suggestion would be of great help. Thanks.I have a Table where one of the columns contains text elements separated by commas. I want to keep the first element (if there is only one) or the first two (if the are more than one). There also could be empty lines. For example, from:
abcd, efgh, tyui
[]
lkjh, poiu
wert

I want to get
abcd, efgh
[]
lkjh, pou
wert

I know how to do this with a for loop. But the idea would be to use regular expressions or something similar to accelerate the process. The Table has almost 2M elements.
Any suggestion would be of great help. Thanks. I have a Table where one of the columns contains text elements separated by commas. I want to keep the first element (if there is only one) or the first two (if the are more than one). There also could be empty lines. For example, from:
abcd, efgh, tyui
[]
lkjh, poiu
wert

I want to get
abcd, efgh
[]
lkjh, pou
wert

I know how to do this with a for loop. But the idea would be to use regular expressions or something similar to accelerate the process. The Table has almost 2M elements.
Any suggestion would be of great help. Thanks. regular expressions, text selection MATLAB Answers — New Questions

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