regarding specific files from folder

I have some data sets its for daily observations and I would like to read data for one month every time ( 30 files) and after that it should go to next month. can anybody tell me how to fix this problem?

Answer 1

[Arturo Moncada-Torres]

Does this solution work for you? I have not tested it, let me know if it works.

files = dir('*.h5');    % Find the files with extension .h5 in the current directory.
monthsStr = {'01';'02';'03';'04';'05';'06';'07';'08';'09';'10';'11';'12'};
for ii = 1:numel(files)  % In theory, you have 365 files.
  for year = 2009:2010
    for jj 1:numel(monthsStr)
        nameFound = strfind(files(ii).name, ['GSAT' num2str(year) monthsStr{jj}]); % The mistake was here =P .
        if nameFound
          fid = fopen(files(ii).name);
          % Do whatever you need with the files here.
          fclose(fid);
        end
    end
  end
end

[Uday]

Thank you answer

my codes are as follows

path=('/Net/Groups/BSY/people/upimple/temp/gosat/');

files=dir('*h5');

monthsStr={'01';'02';'03';'04';'05';'06';'07';'08';'09';'10';'11';'12'};

for ii=1:numel(files)

for year=2009:2010

for jj=1:numel(monthsStr)

nameFound=strfind(files(ii).name,['GOSATTFTS' num2str(year) monthsStr(jj)]);

if nameFound

laitude=hdf5read(strcat(path,files(ii).name),'/Data/geolocation/latitude');

longitude=double(hdf5read(strcat(path,files(ii).name),'/Data/geolocation/longitude'));

xco2=double(hdf5read(strcat(path,files(ii).name),'/Data/mixingRatio/XCO2'));

end

end

end

end

and I got error

??? Error using ==> cell.strfind at 35

If any of the input arguments are cell arrays, the first must be

a cell array of strings and the second must be a character array.

Error in ==> temp at 16

nameFound=strfind(files(ii).name,['GOSATTFTS'

num2str(year) monthsStr(jj)]);

[Arturo Moncada-Torres]

My mistake, you must use "{" and "}" instead of "(" and ")". I edited the answer, take a look at it ;).

Answer 2

[Wouter Donders]

Surely the filenames contain some coded tags with which you could identify which files go with which month?

Have a look here.

[Uday]

my problem is that I wanted to read only specific files from all files e.g for whole year I have 365 files , I want to read them separately / month ( So accordingly every month contains 31,30 28or 29 files). the files names give me the year and month and day (gmat20090211_1245Stv.h5).