Grabbing all files in a folder

Is there anyway in matlab to grab all the files in a folder that the user select? Kind of like the uigetfile() command but that only grab the file selected. I want a way where user can select the folder and matlab will grab all the files inside of that folder. Even better if matlab can grab particular files base on the name of those files.

Answer 1

[Jiro Doke]

Take a look at uigetdir and dir. For example, if you want to pick out all the JPG files in a folder that the user selects:

d = uigetdir(pwd, 'Select a folder');
files = dir(fullfile(d, '*.jpg'));

% Display the names
files.name

[Jenna]

In this case, what kind of data type is files?

[Jeong Dae Kim]

@Jenna

struct

Answer 2

[Robert Cumming]

if you set use the following syntax you can select multiple files:

uigetfile('*.m', 'Select Multiple Files', 'MultiSelect', 'on' )

or you can use

uigetdir

to select a directory, then use the ls command to get a list of files in that directory.