MATLAB - Get folder content as a string array

I need to get the content of the selected folder as an array of strings in order to run a script for each file in a for loop. The way I am currently doing it I receive the content as a char two dimensional array.

Is there a way to get the contents directly as a string array instead of running each row in a loop and converting it to a String?

directory = uigetdir;
list = ls(strcat(directory, '*.extension'))

for i = 1: ??


1 Answer
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You want to use the dir function:

dir

list = dir(fullfile(directory, '*.extension'));
for ii=1:numel(list)
fullfile(list(ii).foler, list(ii).name)
end


You can skip the for-loop and just do fullfile({list.folder}, {list.name})
– matlabbit
Jun 29 at 22:49

@matlabbit: Thanks for that addition. I didn't mention it because OP wants to "run a script for each file in a for loop", but it's good to have this here.
– Cris Luengo
Jun 29 at 23:01

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