CODEWITHSUNDEEP
matlab
Mona Jalal
Mona Jalal

Reputation: 38145

iterating only through the files names in a directory using MATLAB

How to only access the file names in a directory?

>> files = dir('*.png');
>> disp(class(dir('*.png')))
struct
>> fields

fields = 

    'name'
    'date'
    'bytes'
    'isdir'
    'datenum'

>> for i=1:numel(fields)
files.(fields{i}.name)
end
Struct contents reference from a non-struct array object.

>> for i=1:numel(fields)
files.(fields{i}).name
end
Expected one output from a curly brace or dot indexing expression, but there were 11 results.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 74

Answers (2)

NKN
NKN

Reputation: 6424

You can use ls like this

list=ls('*.png');
for ii=1:size(list,1)
  s = strtrim(list(ii,:)); % a string containing the name of each file
end

ls works with chars instead of cells.

Upvotes: 2

Luis Mendo
Luis Mendo

Reputation: 112659

File names are in the field names of the struct array returned by dir. So:

files = dir('*.png');
for k = 1:numel(files)
    f = files(k).name; % f contains the name of each file
end

Upvotes: 3

Related Questions