Hi,
you can use the compose function to create a string array with the file names in different folders like your example: folder_pattern = 'C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0001\Excel.xlsx';
A= 1:100;
newText = compose("%04d",A);
folder_new = string(zeros(100,1));
for k = 1:numel(A)
folder_new(k) = replaceBetween(folder_pattern,'C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.','\Excel.xlsx',newText(k))
end
As result you get a string array like this:
folder_new =
100×1 string array
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0001\Excel.xlsx"
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0002\Excel.xlsx"
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0003\Excel.xlsx"
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0004\Excel.xlsx"
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0005\Excel.xlsx"
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0006\Excel.xlsx"
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0007\Excel.xlsx"
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0008\Excel.xlsx"
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0009\Excel.xlsx"
.
.
.
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0096\Excel.xlsx"
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0097\Excel.xlsx"
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0098\Excel.xlsx"
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0099\Excel.xlsx"
"C:\DATA_DIR\TEST_1\2018_11_26.0100\Excel.xlsx"
If you include your operations on the single files into the for loop, you can process all operations in one step.
Best rregards
Stephan
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