{"id":255,"date":"2008-02-26T09:39:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T14:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/02\/26\/matlab-basics-getting-a-directory-listing\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T15:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:21:38","slug":"matlab-basics-getting-a-directory-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/02\/26\/matlab-basics-getting-a-directory-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Basics: Getting a directory listing"},"content":{"rendered":"In the past we covered how to use UIGETFILE as an alternative to hardcoding the name of a file in your program. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2007\/09\/27\/matlab-basics-video-uigetfile-for-selecting-a-file-in-a-script-function-or-gui\/\">[click here]<\/a> In this video, we will show how MATLAB can get a directory listing and use it to batch process the files in a directory.\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877438045001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/lazyweb-open-challenges\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/pick\/Lazy.jpg\" alt=\"lazy.jpg\" \/>\r\n<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/02\/26\/matlab-basics-getting-a-directory-listing\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/f8018c4c-f82b-4c98-a836-f0cb10c779ed\/f98b09dc-bf00-4ecf-8ed3-571cee1e4359\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">2:22<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>In the past we covered how to use UIGETFILE as an alternative to hardcoding the name of a file in your program. [click here] In this video, we will show how MATLAB can get a directory listing and use&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/02\/26\/matlab-basics-getting-a-directory-listing\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}