sorting folder based on what type of files it contains

I want to sort folders based on what it contains. so i have folders with names 0008,0009, etc. they each have contents inside, but some does not have a .dcm file some does not have a bmp file ( inside subfolders ) . i want to sort this folders and put it into another parent folder no dicom and no bmp. i have attached a picture of how the folders i want to move look. I made the code below but it moved all the files to the no bmp folder instead

nufolderpath = '/Users/sesiliamaidelin/Downloads/summer project/Copy_of_nufolder';

nu_filesAndFolders = dir([nufolderpath '/**']);% Get all subfolder and files names

nu_folders = dir([nufolderpath])

nu_allfolders = {nu_folders.name}

nu_alllist={nu_filesAndFolders.name} % Convert to cell

for ll= 1:numel(nu_allfolders) %ok

currfolder = nu_allfolders{ll};

nupath = fullfile( nufolderpath, currfolder)

if isempty(dir(fullfile(nupath,'*.dcm')))

copyfile(fullfile(nufolderpath,currfolder), fullfile(nufolderpath, 'no dcm'))

end

end

Answer 1

[Shravan Kumar Vankaramoni]

Hi,

Below code demostrates sorting folders based on certain files and move them to another folder.

fileList = dir('*.bmp'); % It lists the files with .bmp extension
x = size(fileList); %Find the size of output
if(x(1) == 0) % if no .bmp files are present, move folder to nobmp folder
    movefile source destination; %replace source and destination with respective paths
end

Refer the below link for more information:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/147197-how-to-return-files-with-a-specific-extension-using-dir

[sesilia maidelin]

thank you!