Copy a file *.m into newly made folder (folder5, folder6, folder....)

for n = 1:n

mkdir(['folder',sprintf('%d',n)])

end

path1= 'folder(num2str(n))'; %%???? Here I got error for the path name

dos(['copy *.m ', path1])

[Rik]

But you are already using sprintf. What don't you understand? Did you do a basic Matlab tutorial?

[Yogesh Bhattarai]

you didn't understand, i mean to copy *.m file to newly made folder. i want to specify correct code for path 1 (that is newly made folder from above sprintf) which is not right in above case giving error

[Rik]

You show in your for loop that you know how to create a folder name. You use sprintf to create the folder name for mkdir. Why don't you do the exact same thing to create the path1 variable?

for n = 1:n
     mkdir(sprintf('folder%d',n));
end
path1=sprintf('folder%d',n);
dos(['copy *.m ', path1])

[Yogesh Bhattarai]

Thank you so much...

[Yogesh Bhattarai]

and what should we change if we want to put two number such as folder50_25?

[Stephen23]

Rather than very smelly copying of m-files into directories, most likely a much better approach is to use absolute/relative filenames when accessing data files.

[Rik]

Have you read the documentation for sprintf? It should be easy for you to add a second number if you did.

You should also take the advice from Stephen to hart.

[Yogesh Bhattarai]

THANKS for all your good sugestions

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You should not do this:

for n = 1:n

It's very confusing (even though it works) because it appears that n is both the loop iterator and the ending iteration value and seems to take on two contradictory values. You should do this:

for k = 1 : n

To create a series of folders, do this:

n = 4; % Whatever...
pathList = cell(n, 1); % Preallocate a cell array to contain all the folder names.
for k = 1 : n
    % Create the folder name as a character array.
    folderName = fullfile(pwd, sprintf('Folder %2.2d', k));
    if ~isfolder(folderName)
        % Folder does not exist.  Need to create it.
        mkdir(folderName);
    end
    pathList{k} = folderName; % Save the folder name in a list.
end

path1= pathList{1}; % Or whatever you want...
path2= pathList{2}; % Or whatever you want...

[Yogesh Bhattarai]

Thanks