On a mac, how do I overwrite files in a folder in the working directory

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Arthur Shapiro
Arthur Shapiro 2017-12-11
评论： Walter Roberson 2017-12-12
I'm working on a mac. I have a folder in the working directory with six files. I am writing a script to read the files one at a time with a loop, change it and want to overwrite the original file with the reworked one. The script works fine until I try to send the file back to the working directory. I tried sending them to another folder, but that didn't work either. I think there must be a simple way to do this, but I obviously haven't thought of it. Help would be greatly appreciated.
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2017-12-12
[From duplicate post]
Supplement: I forgot to add that the last thing I tried is:
str='megan/megan1.png'; %(1 of 6) saveas(gcf,str);

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2017-12-11
Best practice is to write to a different output file, renaming only after you are sure everything has worked.
For example,
%change line ending with theta = value to theta = newtheta
newtheta = 1.39184;
oldinput = 'theta\s*=.*$';
newoutput = sprintf('theta = %.5f', newtheta);
dinfo = dir('*.txt');
filenames = {dinfo.name};
for K = 1 : length(filenames)
thisfile = filenames{K};
S = fileread(thisfile);
newS = regexprep(S, oldinput, newoutput, 'dotexceptnewline');
newname = ['new_', thisfile];
[fid, msg] = fopen(newname, 'w');
if fid < 0
error('Could not open file "%s" because "%s"', newname, msg);
end
fwrite(fid, newS);
fclose(fid);
backup_name = ['old_', thisfile];
try
movefile(thisfile, backup_name);
catch ME
error('Failed renaming existing file "%s" to backup name "%s"', thisfile, backup_name);
end
try
movefile(newname, thisfile);
catch ME
error('Problem moving new file "%s" to existing name "%s", but file "%s" should have the saved contents of the old file', newname, thisfile, backup_name);
end
end

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