How to remove empty directory names such as '.' '..' returned by "dir" function?

I am using "dir" function to read folder names from a particular directory. Sometimes the function returns some empty or hidden folder names such as "." or "..". How can I get rid of these empty folder names?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This workflow can be achieved by filtering and removing the folder names which match to that pattern such as such as '.' '..' by using indexing.

For example,

files = dir;
folderNames = {files([files.isdir]).name};
folderNames = folderNames(~ismember(folderNames ,{'.','..'}));