MATLAB: How to nat sort rows of a struct

Question

Hi,

I have a matlab script that I am developing for analysing data. After completing some testing last week I have come into the same issue as many others that when I have listed my files that have not been in numerical order. Currently, my files are in this order:

However I need to reorder the rows to have them listed in numerical order with the contents of the rows staying together:

'Emission_1.txt'

'Emission_2.txt'

'Emission_3.txt'

'Emission_4.txt'

'Emission_5.txt'

'Emission_6.txt'

'Emission_7.txt'

'Emission_8.txt'

'Emission_9.txt'

'Emission_10.txt'

'Emission_11.txt'

'Emission_12.txt'

The output struct that I get at the moment looks like

I am really struggling to get them into the correct order while keeping the struct in the same layout. I would really prefer to does as the rest of my script is now built up and I would prefer not to have to change it.

I have looked into using things like natsort, sort_nat and nestedSortStruct but I can't seem to get the output that I need.

Is there a way that this can be done?

I will put my code with attachments too to try and help

Answer 1

Stephen's natsort https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47434-natural-order-filename-sort is useful:

FileList   = dir(fullfile(Folder, '*.*'));
[~, Index] = natsort({FileList.name});
FileList   = FileList(Index);

If the file extensions should not influence the sorting order, use natsortfiles from the same link.