How to create a dynamic parent folder and than create another subfolder in the parent folder?

For example, parent folder is 'info_001, info_002, info_003' while sub folder is 'data_001, data_002, data_003'. How do I make it so that in the info_001 will contain data_001 sub folder and so on. So that I can get the result such as following

'data_001\data_001' 'data_002\data_002' 'data_003\data_003'

I have wrote a code but i cant get what i want.

    name = dir('info_*');
    a = numel(name);

    for b = (a(1) + 1) : (a(1) + 3)
        c = num2str(b, '%03i');
        mkdir(sprintf(['info_%s', c], ['\data_%s', c]));
    end

what I am missing?

Thanks for helping!

[Chandra Kurniawan]

Did you mean?

'info_001\data_001' 'info_002\data_002' 'info_003\data_003'

[Chin]

yes, so that the parent folder is 'info_*' while the sub folder is 'data_*'.

Answer 1

[Chandra Kurniawan]

Hi,

If I did not misunderstand,

info_001 should contains data_001

info_002 should contains data_002

info_003 should contains data_003

name = dir('info_*');
foldername = 'data_00';
for num = 1 : length(name)
    mkdir(name(num).name,strcat(foldername,num2str(num)));
end

[Chandra Kurniawan]

Have you created the parent folders??

Let say there is no parent folders.

My code below will create parent folders and its sub folders.

Please try.

parentfolder = 'info_00';

subfolder = 'data_00';

parentnum = 3;

subnum = 1;

for pn = 1 : parentnum

mkdir(pwd,strcat(parentfolder,num2str(pn)));

for sn = 1 : subnum

mkdir(strcat(parentfolder,num2str(pn)),strcat(subfolder,num2str(sn)));

end

end

[Chin]

how do I create the folder that contains _001, _002 ... can be generated using something like this

num2str(b, '%03i')

because I would like the number for parent folder and sub folder can be generated by itself when the for loop number is increase until 100. So that the folder number can be like this

info_101\data_101, info_102\data\102 and so on.

Thanks a lot.

[Chin]

i solved that problem. Thanks a lot.

parentfolder = 'info_';

subfolder = 'data_';

parentnum = 5;

subnum = 3;

for pn = 1 : parentnum

numI = num2str(pn, '%03i');

mkdir(pwd,strcat(parentfolder,num2str(numI)));

for sn = 1 : subnum

numK = num2str(sn, '%03i');

mkdir(strcat(parentfolder,num2str(numI)),strcat(subfolder,num2str(numK)));

end

end

[Chin]

i solved that problem. Thanks a lot.

parentfolder = 'info_';

subfolder = 'data_';

parentnum = 5;

subnum = 3;

for pn = 1 : parentnum

numI = num2str(pn, '%03i');

mkdir(pwd,strcat(parentfolder,num2str(numI)));

for sn = 1 : subnum

numK = num2str(sn, '%03i');

mkdir(strcat(parentfolder,num2str(numI)),strcat(subfolder,num2str(numK)));

end

end

[Chandra Kurniawan]

Yes, I see

parentfolder = 'info_';

subfolder = 'data_';

parentnum = 10;

subnum = 1;

for pn = 1 : parentnum

bb = num2str(pn, '%03i');

mkdir(pwd,strcat(parentfolder,bb));

for sn = 1 : subnum

mkdir(strcat(parentfolder,bb),strcat(subfolder,bb));

end

end

[Chin]

yes. really thanks a lot.