MATLAB: Best way to loop through multiple subfolders and run either script A or B depending on folder name

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Here is my current folder/subfolder set up
Study > Participant (1-24) > Experiment (A) and Experiment (B) > Session (1, 2, and 3)
  1. Folder that contains all participants data for this study
  2. Subfolder participants folder (1-24)
  3. Subfolder with data from experiment A and a subfolder for experiment B
  4. Subfolder for session 1, 2, and 3
I have a code that works at the last level – I can analyze 1 session at a time with a script designed for Experiment 1, and another script that analyzes 1 session for Experiment 2.
However this would be very time consuming to analyze each session 1 at a time.
Therefore, my I am trying to figure out how to make a loop that does the following:
  1. Loops through each participants subfolder
  2. Runs Script 1 in the Experiment A subfolder for each session
  3. Runs Script 2 in the Experiment B subfolder for each session
It's important that Script 1 does not run for Experiment B and vice versa because the data, variable names, etc are different.
Hopefully this, appreciate any help that can be offered

Best Answer

If you have adopted a logical naming system for the files and directories, something simple like this would do:
for P = 1:24 % loop over participants
    Pstr = sprintf('Participant%d',P) ;
    for S = 1:3 % loop over sessions
        Sstr = sprintf('Session%d', S) ;
        fileA = fullfile('Study', Pstr, 'ExpA', Sstr, 'data.mat')
        ResultsA (P,S) = MyAnalysisA(fileA) ; % if a single element is returned
        % and something similar for  B
    end
end
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