MATLAB: How to get only foldername with uigetdir

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Hello, I want to select a folder (would be subfolder2 in my example) and use its name as a string. The problem is that not only the foldername but the whole location is the output of uigetdir().

 name = uigetdir('./subfolder1/');

Is there a simple function to just get the name of the selected folder?

Cheers, J

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Use fileparts:

filepath = uigetdir('./subfolder1/');
[~,name] = fileparts(fileparts)

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