MATLAB: Why ismember({​struct.nam​e},{‘*.mat​’}) returns zero while struct.nam​e=’baseval​ues_Mean_r​.mat’

Question

Any idea why ismemeber returns zero in this case?

Answer 1

ismember() never does wildcarding. It only does exact matches.

regexp() does matching but the handling of wildcards is different than what you would expect.

~cellfun(@isempty, regexp({struct.name},'.*\.mat$', 'once'))

but for your purposes it might be enough to use

endsWith({S.name},'.mat')