MATLAB: Reorder a Cell arrays

cell arrays

Hi. I am using uiget with multiselect to perform an operation on several text files. I assign the cell aray fname as below.
[fname,pname]=uigetfile('*.txt','select the Miscall Matrix files', 'MultiSelect', 'on',startpname);
My text files are always number are always of the form *1.txt to **12.txt and it always puts the last file first in the cell array. Is there a quick way to reorder the cell array "fname" Thanks

Best Answer

Yep. This is pretty common. You need to do some processing.
fname={'abc3.txt','abc2.txt','abc1.txt','abc10.txt','abc12.txt'};
Num=regexp(fname,'\d+','match');
Num=char(cellfun(@cell2mat,Num,'uni',false));
[Num,Index]=sort(str2num(Num));
fname=fname(Index)
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