UIGETFILE to filter out files with specific string
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I'm looking to do something fairly simple. I want to use UIGETFILE to have the user get a specific file. The user will be searching for an xml file in a specific folder - and that part I know how to do. I would like to have UIGETFILE further filter the options based on the string of the file. For example, the folder may contain:
Type1A.xml
Type1B.xml
Type2A.xml
Type2B.xml
...
Type7C.xml
and I would like the user to only be able to select (or see) anything that contains "Type1". In this case they should be able to see "Type1A.xml" or "Type1B.xml".
Not sure how to get this to happen with UIGETFILE or if maybe there is a better way around it. The FILTERSPEC in the input allows me to specify "*.xml" but I would ideally only like xml files with a specific string contained within the file name.
Thanks!
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Image Analyst
on 3 Jul 2014
Try passing in 'Type*.xml' for the file pattern in uigetfile().
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Maurice Schlösser
on 6 Jun 2018
Edited: Maurice Schlösser
on 6 Jun 2018
It works. I would like to do the same, but to filter just the last letters of the filename.
My Problem: I have the following two files in my folder:
KS_FFT_Pos-7_64364.xlsx
KS_FFT_Pos-7_64364_worked.xlsx
Only the "_worked.xlsx" data works for my following process in MatLab. So I would like to get that the user just have the opinion to select the right excel-data (the worked version).
EDIT: I got it!
It has to be
...uigetfile('*_worked.xlsx',...);
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