How to read part of folder

I have my data saved into folders based on time of creation. the structure is like this:

folder:  05_dec._2014_08-15-03.331_GMT+00-00
files: OneName_05_dec._2014_08-15-03.331_GMT+00-00.txt
       AnotherName_05_dec._2014_08-15-03.331_GMT+00-00.txt
       JetAnotherName_05_dec._2014_08-15-03.331_GMT+00-00.txt

How can i do so that every time i add a folder, i'll need to only give the folder name and it will read file names based on some schema.

for example

First = csvread('OneName_whatever_folder_name.txt')
Second = csvread('AnotherName_whatever_folder_name.txt');

Answer 1

[Orion]

you can use fullfile

Folder = 'C:\users\....\05_dec._2014_08-15-03.331_GMT+00-00'; % put your own folder path
File   = 'OneName_whatever_folder_name.txt';

csvread(fullfile(Folder,File))

[DuckDuck]

I want to eleminate writing the file name every time i need to access a folder with files. Because each folder has the same nr of files but they differ from timestamp in their name.

Answer 2

[Guillaume]

How about:

foldername = 'whatever'; %adjust to folder name, your input.

basepath = 'C:\somewhere\ondisk'; %adjust as required. A constant.
filesinfolder = dir(fullfile(basepath, foldername, sprintf('*_%s.txt', foldername)));
filecontent = cell(numel(filesinfolder), 1);
for filecount = 1 : numel(filesinfolder)
   filecontent{filecount} = csvread(fullfile(basepath, foldername, filesinfolder(filecount).name));
end

[DuckDuck]

I get empty filesinfolder and filescontent!!!

[Guillaume]

I've not understood your pattern then, I thought the file names were just the folder name preceded by something and an underline _ and followed by .txt. If that's not the case, then yes, filesinfolder will be empty.

What does the following outputs?

d = dir(fullfile(basepath, foldername));
fullfile(foldername, {d.name}')