Remove path from file name
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Douglas Anderson
on 11 Dec 2014
Commented: Chad Greene
on 11 Dec 2014
Hello!
There's probably a simple tool for this, but I can't find it:
Have a string for a file name that includes the full path, like:
C:\Users\DougAnderson\Documents\MATLAB\SHtest\sig hole 1.xlsx
where the last part (the actual file name) may contain spaces. I would like to change this to, for example
sig hole 1
Thanks
Doug
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Chad Greene
on 11 Dec 2014
Edited: Chad Greene
on 11 Dec 2014
You can use fileparts. I had to switch the direction of the slashes because I'm using a mac, but it should work on your machine keeping the slashes the way you wrote them:
[~,name,~] = fileparts('C:/Users/DougAnderson/Documents/MATLAB/SHtest/sig hole 1.xlsx')
name =
sig hole 1
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Sean de Wolski
on 11 Dec 2014
Chad, fullfile will handle filesep for you.
fullfile('C:\Documents/MATLAB')
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Azzi Abdelmalek
on 11 Dec 2014
s='C:\Users\DougAnderson\Documents\MATLAB\SHtest\sig\hole 1.xlsx'
out=regexp(s,'(?<=\\)[^\\]+$','match')
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