MATLAB: How to delete files ending with odd number

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Hi,
I would like to delete each files having its filename ending by an odd number. Example: file0 file1 file2 file3 file4 After: file0 file2 file4
Thank you for your help 🙂

Best Answer

You could looop through all the files and delete ones that have an odd number using regexp, regular expression search
files = dir('*'); % find all files in current directory
for i=1:length(files),
  fileno = str2double(cell2mat(regexp(files(i).name, '[0-9]{1,}', 'match')));
  if mod(fileno, 2) == 1, % check if fileno modulo 2 == 1
    delete(files(i).name);
  end
end
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