recreate a basic sscanf.m using regular expressions in matlab

main.m
function data = my_sscanf(input_str, format)

    % Find all the tokens 
    tokens = regexp(input_str, format, 'tokens');

    % Initialize data
    data = cell(1, numel(tokens));

    % Extract data from matched tokens
    for i = 1:numel(tokens)
        data{i} = tokens{i}{1};
    end

end
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