storing the longest string after strsplit - arrays

Question

I am trying to store the longest resultant string after using the function strsplit unable to do so
eg: I have input strings such as
'R.DQDEGNFRRFPTNAVSMSADENSPFDLSNEDGAVYQRD.L'or
'L.TSNKDEEQRELLKAISNLLD'
I need store the string only between the dots (.)
If there is no dot then I want the entire string.
Each string may have zero, one or two dots.
part of the code which I am using:
for i=1:700
x=regexprep(txt(i,1), '\([^\(\)]*\)','');
y=(strsplit(char(x),'.'));
for j=1:3
yValues(1,j)=y{1,j};
end
end
But the string yValues is not storing the value of y, instead showing the following error:
Assignment has more non-singleton rhs dimensions than non-singleton subscripts
What am I doing wrong and are there any suggestions on how to fix it?

Answer 1

The issue is that y is a cell array and each element contains an entire string and it therefore can't be assigned to a single element in a normal array yvalues(1,j).
You need yvalues to be a cell array and then you can assign into it just fine.
yValues{j} = y{j};
Or more simply
% Outside of your loop
yValues = cell(1,3);
% Then inside of your loop
yValues(j) = y(j);
Alternately, if you just want the longest output of strsplit, you can just do something like this.
% Split the string
parts = strsplit(mystring, '.');
% Find the length of each piece and figure out which piece was the longest
[~, ind] = max(cellfun(#numel, parts));
% Grab just the longest part
longest = parts{ind};