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A.Rainer
A.Rainer

Reputation: 719

Problems with deleting selected files

I want to delete all files that start with letter 'f' in a folder. This is what I've tried:

delete (fullfile(datapath,folder_name),sprintf('^%s.*\.nii$','f'));

For some reason when I do this, I get the error that \. isn't a valid control character and also it thinks that I want to delete the entire directory. Could anyone tell me how to fix this issue?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 31

Answers (1)

TroyHaskin
TroyHaskin

Reputation: 8401

sprintf is primarily aimed at formatting data into a string format and doesn't work with RegEx expressions. However, delete's wildcard * should suffice here according to this example:

delete(fullfile(datapath,folder_name,'f*.nii'));

Upvotes: 3

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