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dpb
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Re: Listing Files With Certain Names
Posted:
Mar 5, 2013 9:07 AM
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On 3/5/2013 7:40 AM, S Stron wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm attempting to load files into the MATLAB workspace that have
> specific beginnings and endings but the same middle as other files.
> i.e. I'd like to load 'cf_file_1.mat', 'cf_file_2.mat', but not
> 'jd_file_1.mat'.
>
> At the moment my code looks like this, which works but I need to define
> a 'files' variable as the number fo files found. However I can't get the
> eval function to output the particular files under a variable name.
>
> ppt=input('ppt initials?', 's'); eval(['dir ' ppt '_file_*.mat;']);
>
> So really, how can I call x number of files with specific names whilst
> counting the amount of them?
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Forget eval; use dir()...
d=dir([ppt '_file_*.mat;']);
for f={d.name}
s=load(f); % say, if SAVEd...
end
doc dir
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