loading a mat file using its location, without knowing its name

I have a large group of mat-files with random names, in a specific folder. I want to load them in a for loop, sequentially.

Is it possible to load them without entering all of file-names in my code?

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

[Salaheddin Hosseinzadeh]

Sounds interesting! I would like to know the answer as well.

Answer 1

[Dishant Arora]

How can I process a sequence of files? Second method there'd work for you.

[leila]

Thank you very much.

Answer 2

[Joseph Cheng]

The dir() command is what you are looking for. such that you can do

MATfiles = dir('c:\testfolder\*.mat');

which will return a structure (here i define as MATfiles) containing all matfiles inside that folder under MATfiles(i).name.

[leila]

Thank you very much. Yes, the dir() command is the correct answer.

Answer 3

[Jaber Malekzadah]

Hi,

I use the following code but it doesn't work, do you know why?

datapath = 'D:\\Dropbox\PA_imaging\'; MATfiles = dir('datapath*.mat');

I have to use this form code. thanks

[Jos (10584)]

What do you mean, "it does not work"? Do you get an error? Do you see too many files? Does the world stop spinning?

datapath = 'D:\\Dropbox\PA_imaging\' 
GenericName = fullfile(datapath,'*.mat')
MATfiles = dir(GenericName)