MATLAB: Get files from many directories

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Hi everyone,

I have a list of directories from which I would like to get the names of the files that they hold. An example list is attached. Then I would like to create an unified list with all the names of those files (from all the folders). I will need this list of files to feed it to another function. I hope this makes sense. I know that maybe using the function dir can help me with this, but I haven't found a way to implement it so it can read every cell from the folder list and get me the contents of it. I would appreciate your help.

Many thanks, Ramiro

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See attached demos, for before and after release R2016b.

If you want, you could strip off the folder and call unique() on the base file names.

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