MATLAB: Read files from folder with specific name

Question

I am using the following code to read all files from a folder:

Files=dir('*');
for k=1:length(Files)
 FileNames=Files(k).name;
end

However I want to read the files which names begin with "word" not just all files in folder. How can I perform such task?

Answer 1

Files=dir('word*.*');