filepathparts

Returns cell array of strings containing individual directories from a specified file path.

Description

Simple function that complements the built-in functions FULLFILE and FILEPARTS. This function parses the pathstr output of fileparts and returns a cell array of strings containing the individual directories in the specified filepath string, given as input.

Example:

directory ='C:\Dir1\Dir2\Dir3\DirN';
filename = 'Filename.ext';
pandf = fullfile(directory,filename);
filepathparts(pandf)

ans = 'DriveLetter:'
      'Dir1'
      'Dir2'
      'Dir3'
      'DirN'

Algorithm*:
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C = strread(pathstr,'%s','delimiter',...
            strrep(filesep,'\','\\'));

*suggested by Jos x@y.z

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.0.4 (R14SP2)

[Jos x@y.z]

Why not use:
C = strread(FullPathName, '%s','delimiter',strrep(filesep,'\','\\'))

(the strrep to needed on PC platforms)

Why is there a '\' in the last cell?

[D S]

Jos - I agree, your solution is much prettier. The extra '\' is an off-by-one index error. I've resubmitted the m-file, which is now based on your one-line algorithm. Thanks for the help ;)

[julien diener]

what about:

C = regexp( FullPathName, '[^\\/]+', 'match');

[DS]

Julien - C = regexp( FullPathName, '[^\\/]+', 'match'); should work pretty well in most cases, but about Unix systems where backslash is a valid character to use in a filename?