Selecting files based on name - how to select files WITHOUT suffix

I've been given some data to analyse and the file names are in the following format:

Optowell3956814

Optowell3956814Censoring

Optowell3956814FailTimes

Optowell3956814scantimes

where the number in the middle changes depending on the sample. I want to be able to select all of the files of the form Optowell3956814 and ignore the others. How can I select these?

Answer 1

[adi kul]

You can try this:

 [filepath,name,ext] = fileparts(YourFileName);