dir function help

Hi

I want to be able to list all the jpg files within a folder called videos. Can anyone explain why my code does not work:

dir('videos/*.jpg)

I get the error videos/*.jpg not found. Please help

[Image Analyst]

Well you're missing a trailing quote, but that won't give that error. Did you follow the guidelines for the second example of this section of the FAQ: http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_process_a_sequence_of_files.3F

[Jan]

@James: Please post a copy of the complete error message.

Answer 1

[Paulo Silva]

perhaps the bar is the other one?

dir('videos\*.jpg)

[Pierre]

'/' as file separator should also work on Windows systems too. (At least it does on mine.)

Answer 2

[Fangjun Jiang]

    dir(['videos',filesep,'*.jpg'])

[Pierre]

(Just for convenience issues: fullfile('videos', '*.jpg') is equivalent to your statement and comes in quite handy for deeper stacked directory structures.)

Answer 3

[Pierre]

• Are you in the right working directory? Check with pwd and/or check whether the results of dir (without any parameters) contains a directory called "videos".
• If there is no file matching the pattern, this error will appear. You won't simply get an empty result (although I agree this should be the case).
• Did you eventually forget about the case sensitivity of Linux systems?