How to create an array of files names from a structure created by 'dir' result?

Hi,

I have a folder with multiple txt files and I would like to create an array of the files names.

I used the 'dir' function and recieved a structures with field for every file.

Now I would like to create an array of all the files names, how do I do that?

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Jon]

This will put them into a cell array

list = dir('*.txt')
filenames = {list.name}

[Jon]

You can make a string array using

list = dir('*.txt')
filenames = string({list.name})

I'm not sure whether there is a way to go directly from list.name to a string array without the intermediate curly braces to make a cell array. Not a big issue, but maybe someone can suggest a cleaner way to to do this.