for i= 1:length(chr)
structvariableA=dir([station '.channel.' chr(i,1:7) '*.SAC'])
if str2num(charvariableA(a,1:6)) > str2num(stringvariable(i,3:8))
a = a +1
fldtfID = system(['cp -R ' '~/Desktop/Folder/Datafolder/subdatafolder/' structvariableA.name ' ' charvariableA(a,1:12) 'x.' lower(charvariable) 'e'])
else
fldtfID = system(['cp -R ' '~/Desktop/Folder/Datafolder/subdatafolder/' structvariableA.name ' ' charvariableA(a,1:12) 'x.' lower(charvariable) 'e'])
end
end
Just for starters...none of the other variables are defined, either, so nobody here can tell what the actual strings that you're building are to even guess if there's a syntax or similar issue with badly formed filenames.
Then there's the issue of whether those contain valid numeric substrings or not and that in the if construct it doesn't appear that in
fldtfID = system(['cp -R ' '~/Desktop/Folder/Datafolder/subdatafolder/' structvariableA.name ' ' charvariableA(a,1:12) 'x.' lower(charvariable) 'e'])
fldtfID = system(['cp -R ' '~/Desktop/Folder/Datafolder/subdatafolder/' structvariableA.name ' ' charvariableA(a,1:12) 'x.' lower(charvariable) 'e'])
there's anything different at all in the two cases so why have them? -- although there is something funky going on with respect to not incrementing a for some reason. But, that would be the only thing the if would be needed for as written.
Use the debugger and check what you're creating there -- undoubtedly it isn't what you think it is.
fullfile to build a file string and simplifying the smaller sub-pieces would go a long way to making the code easier to read and probably debug as well.
