extracting only numeric part from cell array includes character and number

data= 

      '0.0253906'
      '0.0292969'
      '0.03125</'
      '0.03125</'
      '0.03125</'
      '0.0058593'
      '0.03125</'
      '0.0117188'
      '0.0117188'
      '0.0234375'

data= 10x1 cell

I need to extract only numeric parts of each row of data. "</" characters of 3-5 and 7th rows need to be removed.

Answer 1

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You can use regular expressions on this to filter out data you need. Example

a = regexp(data,'[0-9]+.[0-9]+', 'match')%all numbers of format xyz.abc