MATLAB: Using dir with a url

dirurl

Hello all, I am trying to list the contents in a folder using a url. I would like to see all the files in a specified url directory. See below for an example file:

url='http://test.opendap.org/dap/data/nc/'; dir(url)

I keep getting an error for no matches. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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dir() does not respect url, and considers them just to be paths to hand to the file system.

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MATLAB: Dir(cd)

dir is a function that takes a look in a determined folder (and subfolder if you command).

cd without arguments is your actual location

dir(cd) would bring you all the files in your actual location.

files = dir(cd);

Will return a struct with name of the file, folder,a boolean value about if it is a folder or not, and its modification date.

Hope it helps!

MATLAB: Dir problem

Hi! Thanks for looking into it. Apparently the problem is solved in version 12a. I work with version Matlab 7.10.0 (R2010a)

A student of mine (Marije) found the answer though. here is the problem and the solution:

>> ls
.                       Untitled2 - Copy (5).m  Untitled20.m            
..                      Untitled2 - Copy.m      Untitled200.m           
Untitled2 - Copy (4).m  Untitled2.m             
>> dir('Untitled2.*')
Untitled2 - Copy (4).m  Untitled2.m             
Untitled2 - Copy (5).m  Untitled20.m            
Untitled2 - Copy.m      Untitled200.m           
>> dir('Untitled20.*')
Untitled20.m   Untitled200.m

But This is the answer!! The '.' is the problem and '..' is the solution

>> dir('Untitled2..*')
Untitled2.m

Jeroen

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