Using dir in evalc

Hi all

I am trying to extract the files ending with Marksheet.csv using

 evalc('dir **Marksheet.csv**')

I know that dir tells MATLAB to scan the current folder. What if my code is in a different folder (/stimulus/test/codes) and I do not want MATLAB to cd into the folder containing the Marksheet.csv files (/stimulus/test/results). Is there a way to edit

 evalc('dir **Marksheet.csv**')

so that dir in this command refers to /stimulus/test/results and I can still run this command in a code stored in /stimulus/test/codes.

Thank you for your help.

Suha

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

That code is invalid.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/dir.html

"dir name lists files and folders that match name. When name is a folder, dir lists the contents of the folder. Specify name using absolute or relative path names. The name argument can include the * wildcard in the file name, and both the * and the wildcard in the path name. Characters next to a wildcard must be file separators."

Your code

   evalc('dir **Marksheet.csv**')

uses the wildcard without being adjacent to file separators.

If you want the files ending in Marksheet.csv that are in a different directory then

resultsdir = '/stimulus/test/results';
dinfo = dir( fullfile(resultsdir, '*Marksheet.csv') );
filenames = fullfile( resultsdir, {dinfo.name} );

Notice the complete lack of evalc(). The cell array of character vectors, filenames, will have each file name fully qualified.

[Suha]

Thank you Walter for such a quick response !