How to save all workspace variables and figures in a folder?

Hello there, I want to write a code which will save all workspace variables and figures in separate folders.

For example if I am currently in folder C:\Users\XXX\Documents

I want MATLAB to create a folder named 'ED' in 'Documents' and then create subfolder named '['N=',num2str(N)]' and further create two subfolders in '['N=',num2str(N)]' folder named 'Data' and 'Figures' and then save all workspace variables in folder 'Data' and figures in folder 'Figures'.

Is it possible in MATLAB?

Answer 1

[Rik]

You can save all variables in the current workspace by using save without specifying any variable name, although this is inadvisable outside of debugging.

Other functions you might want to look into: sprintf, mkdir, savefig, and fullfile

[Luqman Saleem]

I tried with 'mkdir' but I could not create subfolders in subfolder.

[Rik]

What code did you try for mkdir? Because it shouldn't have any trouble creating subfolders in folders that don't exist yet. What error are you getting?

[Luqman Saleem]

N=10;
mkdir('ED',['N=',num2str(N)])

I want to further create subfolders in N=10 folder. How can I do that?

[Rik]

You can either use a relative path (first block of code), or a complete path.

N=10;
new_folder=fullfile('ED',sprintf('N=%d',N),'variables');
mkdir(new_folder)

N=10;
current_folder=pwd;
new_folder=fullfile(current_folder,'ED',sprintf('N=%d',N),'variables');
mkdir(new_folder)

mkdir will create any non-existing intermediary folders.

[Luqman Saleem]

Thank you so much.