MATLAB: Reading date of a file

Question

I'm trying to obtain a date of creation of a file with :

          [dum,str] = dos('dir myfile.txt');
          c = textscan(str,'%s');
          createdate = c{1}{15}

but I want to put my Matlab variable as in :

        [dum,str] = dos('dir', strcat(myfile));
        c = textscan(str,'%s');
        createdate = c{1}{15}
        disp(createdate);

And it doesnt work, how do I do it ??

Cheers

Damian

Answer 1

Why not just use dir?

A = dir(myfile);
disp(A.date)

But if you want to call the dos command:

 [dum, str] = dos(sprintf('dir %s', mfile));
 c = textscan(str,'%s');
 createdate = c{1}{15};
 disp(createdate);