MATLAB: How to search pathname for string

pathnamestrcmp

Hi,

I'm using this code to give the filepath of the selected file:

[FileName,PathName,FilterIndex] = uigetfile
PathName = T:\Field Test\Field Test Scripts\Master Files\For Single Screen File\Final Combined Script\OLD\

Now I want to search this pathname for 'OLD', so I used this code:

strcmpi(PathName, 'OLD')

But it always returns false:

ans =
       0

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Best Answer

You are comparing two strings for equality, and the comparison is not case sensitive (help strcmpi). What you wanted to do, I guess, is to find out if a string is included in another string. For that i would recommend:

isFound = ~isempty(regexp(Pathname,'OLD'));

Cheers!

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