I am trying to find a list of jpg files but also using filesep (to break the names of the files) in one line
dir([folder,[filesep '*.' 'jpg']]).
The above command works for me. But I also want to find the files that include in their name a specific word like 'blue' but when I tried to use
dir([folder,[filesep '*.' '*blue*jpg']])
it did not work, the program does not find any files at all. Is there anyway to do this in one line? Thank you.
You want to use dir([folder,[filesep '*blue*.jpg']]), or more simply dir([folder filesep '*blue*.jpg']).
Just to be clear, the * character acts as a "wildcard". It can represent zero or more characters of any kind.
*.jpg finds all .jpg files because * allows the filename before the extension to be anything.
red*.jpg finds all .jpg files starting with red, like redhouse.jpg or redflower.jpg.
*green.jpg finds all .jpg files ending with green, like grassgreen.jpg or darkgreen.jpg
*blue*.jpg finds all .jpg files that contain the word blue, like skyblue.jpg, bluecar.jpg, or mybluebox.jpg.
What you're using now, dir([folder,[filesep '*.' '*blue*jpg']]) would find files like something.BLAHblueBLEHjpg.