MATLAB: Error “Could not open file ‘ncfiles'”. when using a for loop to open ncfiles

Question

Hi

I have 469 ncfiles and I open them in a loop:

ncfiles = dir('*.nc') ;
Nfiles = length(ncfiles) ;     
for i = 1:Nfiles;
    ncdisp(ncfiles(i).name) ;  
    ncid=netcdf.open('ncfiles','NOWRITE');
    varname = netcdf.inqVar(ncid);
    [ndim, nvar, natt, unlim]=netcdf.inq(ncid);
end

But when I run the code I got the error when I used ncid:

Error using netcdf.open (line 52)

Could not open file 'ncfiles'.

Error in Blocking (line 9)

ncid=netcdf.open('ncfiles','NOWRITE');

I hope you can help me!

Answer 1

your file name is stored in ncfiles(i).name rather than being the literal file name 'ncfiles'