EXPANDUSER expands tilde ~ into user home directory

Useful for Matlab functions that can't handle ~

the string $HOME is not handled.

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function e = expanduser(p)
arguments
  p {mustBeTextScalar}
end


pat = ['~[/\', filesep, ']+|^~$'];

[i0, i1] = regexp(p, pat, 'once');

if isempty(i0)
  % no leading ~ or it's ~user, which we don't handle
  e = p;
  return
end

home = stdlib.homedir();

if i1 - i0 == 0 || strlength(p) == i1
  e = home;
elseif isstring(p)
  e = strjoin([home, extractAfter(p, i1)], filesep);
else
  e = strjoin({home, p(i1:end)}, filesep);
end

if isstring(p)
  e = string(e);
end

end

Published with MATLAB® R2025a