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Group:	String Manipulation
See also:	atof string substr

Function:		strtok
Description:		splits a string into tokens. Therefore a set of delimiters has to be specified, i.e., characters that separate the tokens, which are not returned themselves.

Usage:	`z = strtok (str, del)`
Input:
	`str`	1 x 1 vector containing a string which ; should be splitted.
	`del`	1 x 1 vector containing a set of delimiters
Output:
	`z`	n x 1 vector, showing the substrings of str

Example:

str="st,rt,o,k" strtok(str,",")

Result:

Contents of strtok
[1,] "st"
[2,] "rt"
[3,] "o"
[4,] "k"

Example:

str="st,rt-o|k" strtok(str,",-|")

Result:

Contents of strtok
[1,] "st"
[2,] "rt"
[3,] "o"
[4,] "k"