take one number from a name

Question

Alexandros 2011-11-29

Hello people

By using the dir command i get all the files i have in a directory

The names of the files are something like Velo2_11022010_002_E5.xls

How it is possible to take the 2 after the two zeros

This means Velo2_11022010_00 (2) _E5.xls the 2 inside the parenthesis.

because i have the date from dir.date but i need this number also. Any idea?

Thank you

Answer 1

Fangjun Jiang 2011-11-29

FileName='Velo2_11022010_002_E5.xls';
d=regexp(FileName,'_','split')
d = 
    'Velo2'    '11022010'    '002'    'E5.xls'

If your naming convention for the file is consistent, then str2double(d{3}) is what you need.