How to replace specific characters in a cell array?

Question

I have a question about a code.   I have a cell array with strings and I would like to replace the last 5 characters with another for every cell array. I tried strrep but no use.   For example I have an array:   A={'MATHIEW','NIKOLIEW','SAMIEW','SAMOURAI'}.   I would like to replace ONLY in the strings that their last 3 characters have the elen\ments: IEW, with the elements 'YAU'. I mean that I want my final array to be:   B={'MATHYAU','NIKOLYAU','SAMYAU','SAMOURAI'}.

Kshitij Singh · Accepted Answer

Try the function endsWith in a loop to check if the string ends with certain characters
 
B={'MATHIEW','NIKOLIEW','SAMIEW','SAMOURAI'}
B = 1&times;4 cell array
    {'MATHIEW'}    {'NIKOLIEW'}    {'SAMIEW'}    {'SAMOURAI'}

for k = 1 : numel(B)
    if endsWith(B{k}, 'IEW', 'IgnoreCase', true)
        B{k}(end-2 : end) = 'YAU';
    end
end
B % Show in command window
B = 1&times;4 cell array
    {'MATHYAU'}    {'NIKOLYAU'}    {'SAMYAU'}    {'SAMOURAI'}

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