Accessing the folder in Parent Directory

Help me to access folder in the parent directory. suppose I have 2 folders

 E:\Bless\Project\LEARNING\myFolder\var.mat
 E:\Bless\Project\TESTING\myPgm.m

I have to load a variable from the folder "myFolder" througn the myPgm.m program. Now I specify the entire path in

 load "E:\Bless\Project\LEARNING\myFolder\var"

Is there any simple way to specify the path of var.mat?

Answer 1

[Shashank Prasanna]

If you are in: E:\Bless\Project\TESTING\

You can try the following without using the absolute path:

load('..\LEARNING\myFolder\var.mat')

If the folders are in the path then you can do the following:

>> load(which('var.mat'))

[James Morrison]

Rather, use

load('.\LEARNING\myfolder\var.mat')

This allowed me to skip to my current directory. The ../ did not work. Do not use the which() function unless all your files have unique names!