get the name of mat file loaded by command "uiopen" ?

hi guys,

let say i got more than 5 mat files in my current directory and i am using " uiopen " to select one of them.

abcde.mat

qwert.mat

ghgdsfs.mat ....

i also need to get the name of the loaded mat file. ('abde.mat' or the one whic is selected )

is there any way to get the name of loaded mat file with out saving it with a different name or etc.

thanks for help

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Maybe you mean the names of your variables

[theShield]

no i watn the name of the mat file. not the variables in it.

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

[file,path]=uigetfile('*.mat','select a amt file'),
filename=fullfile(path,file)

[Junho Kweon]

I like this way. Sometimes, I need to load files which are in different location.

Thanks for your idea :)

Answer 2

[Dishant Arora]

Use uigetfile instead.

fileName = uigetfile('*.mat');
load(fileName)

Answer 3

[Joseph Cheng]

How are you selecting them? GUI, hard coded, determined by set of parameters, etc? because since you're using uiopen you are putting a string into the function which you could have set that into a variable before.

example:

%%you've hard coded 
uiopen('abcde.mat');

%%could have been implemented as
LoadedMatName_1= 'abcde.mat';
uiopen(LoadedMatName);

So it all depend on how you're selecting the files. if it is user input you can store the selected one when they choose but how to implement depends on how you let the user select the file.

[theShield]

i am using

uiopen ('mat')

thats it. just loading the selected mat file. nothing more.