Opening the only file in the directory

Hello,

I have a directory in which there is only one file with a big name string. The matlab m-file which fopens this file is in some other directory. How can I fopen this only file without explicitly writing down its name in the m-file? The reason that writing down the filename is not desirable is because there are atleast nine hundred such directories with a single file in each of them, and every filename is different. Each directory is properly numbered though - dir001, dir 002, ..., dir934. Each of these contain exactly one file. And the filetype is also the same.

Thanks.

Answer 1

[Rik]

You can use the dir function.

[v k]

Thanks, that worked.

Can you please take a look at this also:

https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/717665-alphabetical-sort-of-a-number-of-excel-files-in-the-directory?s_tid=srchtitle