How do I make multiple folders with specific names?

I am a real beginner here, so this might be a very stupid question, but can someone explain to me who I can make multiple folders at once? I created a cell array with all the names, now I want the folders to have the same name so I can put my data into it ;)

So I have my cell array with the names I need to have:

connames = {'remembered', 'forgotten', 'remembered-forgotten', 'reforgotten-remembered', 'weak', 'strong', 'weak-strong', 'strong-weak', 'strong-forgotten', 'weak-forgotten' }

And then I want directories containing these names:

clear condir; condir = fullfile(dirs.root,'modelcontrasts',connames);
            if ~exist(condir,'dir'); mkdir (condir); end

It however doesn't work like this. What should I do? And why doesn't this work?

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

You will have to do this in a loop, something a bit like this:

for k = 1:numel(connames)
    condir = fullfile(dirs.root,'modelcontrasts',connames{k});
    if 2~=exist(condir,'dir');
        mkdir(condir);
    end
    ... other code here
end

Note the special indexing using curly braces for extracting the string filename out of the cell array connames.

Note how I also changed the exist call to match the documentation: exist does not return a boolean logical, but a numeric values depending on what kind of thing it has tested the existence of (directories are 2).

[Leonore Unknown]

Thank you very much! so fast :)

Answer 2

[MD SHAHNAWAZ RAZA]

Thank you so much. This code is working fine.