MATLAB: Acces directories of specific name

Question

Hi all,

I have a question on how to access specific sub-folders by name.

Lets say I have a working folder where there are sub-folders called:

-power

-thickness

I am using a GUI in which I use the following code to access the individual sub-folder of interest.

folder = uigetdir('C:\Users\...\working folder');
files = dir(fullfile(folder, '*.txt'));

After choosing the sub-folder manually with uigetdir, the procedure works well. I would like to do all simply by indicating where is the working folder with one push-button.

I am guessing that should be something like

folder_destination1 = folder,'power';
files1 = dir(fullfile(folder_destination1, '*.txt'));

folder_destination1 = folder,'power'; files2 = dir(fullfile(folder_destination2, '*.txt'));

How to update the folder name by updating with the sub-folder name?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can get the path of the working folder by using fileparts:

[workpath,subfolder] = fileparts(folder)

Once you have the working path then you generate the subfolder path easily:

fullfile(workpath,'power','*.txt')
fullfile(workpath,'thickness','*.txt')