How to loop through a specific file in various subfolders inside a main folder?

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Vítor
Vítor 2023-4-4
编辑： Stephen23 2023-4-12
I have a main folder containing several subfolders in it, named in a logical way (eg. damage1_case20; damage2_case20; (...); damagei_case20). Each subfolder has several files within them, all sharing the same name between subfolders. My goal is to create a loop in a way that the code would open one subfolder (starting with damage1_case20), open a specific file inside that subfolder (eg. calculation.mat), do what I want it to do to that file, save the new version of the file (eg. calculation_fix.mat) inside that subfolder, then move on to the next subfolder (which would be damage2_case20) and repeat the proccess until the end (damagei_case20).
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Stephen23
Stephen23 2023-4-12
Whatever you do, avoid using slow and hard-to-debug CD in your code!
The simple approach is to get DIR to do most of of this task as possible.

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Bjorn Gustavsson
Bjorn Gustavsson 2023-4-4
For this I (sometimes) do this type of thing:
proj_root_dir = '/full/path/to/project';
data_dirs = {'damage1_case20','damage2_case20','damage3_case20'}; % etc, etc
% or I programmatically extract the data-directories with dir.
file2process = 'calculation.mat';
for iD = 1:numel(data_dirs)
cd(proj_root_dir)
cd(data_dirs{iD})
try
results = process_datafile(file2process)
[~,fnm,ext] = fileparts(file2process);
fnm2save = [fnm,'_fix',ext]; % this save-part might be better
save(fnm2save,'results'); % inside the processing-function
% but you get the idea
catch
disp(['something dodgy happened processing file: ',fullfile(data_dirs{iD},file2process)])
end
end
HTH
Image Analyst
Image Analyst 2023-4-11
编辑：Image Analyst 2023-4-11
Try this robust and well commented demo:
% Finds all the subfolders under a top level folder and then for each subfolder, processes the files within that folder.
% NOTE: this does not process files in the top level folder. It only processes files in subfolders of the top level folder.
clc; % Clear the command window.
workspace; % Make sure the workspace panel is showing.
format compact;
% Define input folder.
% CHANGE THIS FOLDER NAME!!!!!!
topLevelFolder = pwd;
% Check to see that the folder exists.
if ~isfolder(topLevelFolder)
errorMessage = sprintf('Error: The following input folder does not exist:\n%s', topLevelFolder);
uiwait(warndlg(errorMessage));
return;
end
% Get a list of files to process.
filePattern = fullfile(topLevelFolder, '*.*'); % All files in topLevelFolder ONLY.
fileList = dir(filePattern);
% Get only files with the "isdir" flag set. These will be subfolders.
subFolders = fileList([fileList.isdir]);
% Get a cell array of the subfolder names
allSubFolderNames = fullfile(topLevelFolder, {subFolders.name})'
% Get rid of system folders . and ..
systemFolderIndexes = endsWith(allSubFolderNames, '\.') | endsWith(allSubFolderNames, '\..')
subFolders(systemFolderIndexes) = []; % Delete those items by setting equal to null.
% Count how many subfolders we have.
numFolders = length(subFolders);
fprintf('Found %d subfolders inside "%s".\n', numFolders, topLevelFolder)
% If you want you can get a cell array of the subfolder names
allSubFolderNames = fullfile(topLevelFolder, {subFolders.name})'
% Do the processing.
for k = 1 : numFolders
% Get the full path of this one subfolder..
fullSubFolderName = allSubFolderNames{k};
fprintf(1, '\nNow processing folder #%d of %d: "%s".\n', ...
k, numFolders, fullSubFolderName);
% Now get a list of files within this subfolder.
fileList = dir(fullSubFolderName);
% Get a list of files only -- not . and .. and not any subfolders of this subfolder.
filesInSubFolder = fileList(~[fileList.isdir]);
% Count the number of files in this subfolder.
numFiles = numel(filesInSubFolder);
for k2 = 1 : numFiles
thisBaseFileName = filesInSubFolder(k2).name;
thisFullFileName = fullfile(fullSubFolderName, thisBaseFileName);
fprintf(' Processing file #%d of %d : "%s".\n', k2, numFiles, thisBaseFileName)
% Now do whatever you want with thisFullFileName
% such as opening it, copying or moving it somewhere, or whatever.
end
end
message = sprintf('Done processing %d files in %d subfolders of \n"%s".', ...
numFiles * numFolders, numFolders, topLevelFolder);
uiwait(msgbox(message, 'modal'));
In the innermost loop you can open the mat file, change the variables, create a new output filename, and save it.
Stephen23
Stephen23 2023-4-12
编辑：Stephen23 2023-4-12
The simple robust MATLAB approach is to get DIR to do most of the heavy lifting. It is very easy for DIR to loop over subfolders and to avoid dot-directory names and to list only the file you want from each subfolder:
P = 'absolute or relative path to where the subfolders are';
S = dir(fullfile(P,'damage*_case20','calculation.mat'));
for k = 1:numel(S)
F = fullfile(S(k).folder,S(k).name);
D = load(F);
% do whatever with the imported file data D
[Q,N,E] = fileparts(F);
F = fullfile(Q,sprintf('%s',N,'_fix',E));
save(F,'-struct',D)
end

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