loading a mat file using its location, without knowing its name

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I have a large group of mat-files with random names, in a specific folder. I want to load them in a for loop, sequentially.
Is it possible to load them without entering all of file-names in my code?
I really appreciate any help you can provide.

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Dishant Arora
Dishant Arora on 3 Apr 2014
How can I process a sequence of files? Second method there'd work for you.

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Joseph Cheng
Joseph Cheng on 3 Apr 2014
The dir() command is what you are looking for. such that you can do
MATfiles = dir('c:\testfolder\*.mat');
which will return a structure (here i define as MATfiles) containing all matfiles inside that folder under MATfiles(i).name.

Jaber Malekzadah
Jaber Malekzadah on 16 Feb 2015
Hi,
I use the following code but it doesn't work, do you know why?
datapath = 'D:\\Dropbox\PA_imaging\'; MATfiles = dir('datapath*.mat');
I have to use this form code. thanks
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Jos (10584)
Jos (10584) on 16 Feb 2015
What do you mean, "it does not work"? Do you get an error? Do you see too many files? Does the world stop spinning?
datapath = 'D:\\Dropbox\PA_imaging\'
GenericName = fullfile(datapath,'*.mat')
MATfiles = dir(GenericName)

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