Compiling excel files from subfiles

I have 200 excel files, each in their own subfolder of one big folder. They need to be compiled into one master excel sheet. How can i identify the excel sheets in the subfolders and put them into one big excel sheet?
Each excel sheet is named differently but all have "-inflection" at the end of the name.
Thank you!

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There might be a more elegant way than what I am proposing but this should work:
ds = spreadsheetDatastore(pwd,'IncludeSubfolders',true);
ds.Files = ds.Files(contains(ds.Files,'inflection'));
ds.readall();
This way you can use string manipulation to choose which files you want the DataStore to use. Probaly you can also do this in the creation of the ds.

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Sorry, last thing hopefully! I'm getting an error that says undefined function 'contains' for input arguments of type 'cell'. What does this mean?
I am using R2018b, and that seems to work for me... it could be that contains in your release does not support the cell:(
I am sorry for not doing this right the first time... but this will work (less elegant) but still:)
ds = spreadsheetDatastore(pwd,'IncludeSubfolders',true);
aux = string(ds.Files);
ds.Files = ds.Files(aux.contains('inflection'));
ds.readall();
If this does not work, which version of MATLAB are you using?
Agh! it still gives me an error for undefined function 'string' for input argument 'cell'
I'm using R2016a.
Ah okay, now I understand. Sorry I should have asked sooner. I got hooked on the latest releases and MATLAB has become easier for these cases... anyway.. .here is a very crude way of solving this... but it should work in R2016a (I don't have that version installed on my machine).
ds = spreadsheetDatastore(pwd,'IncludeSubfolders',true);
idx = [];
for i = 1:length(ds.Files)
if strfind(ds.Files{i},'inflection')
idx = [idx;i];
end
end
ds.Files = ds.Files(idx);
data = ds.readall();
Jen
Jen 2019-2-27
编辑:Jen 2019-2-27
It worked, thank you so so much!!
Hey GT,
I have a follow-up on this question, is there a simple way to put the subfolder name before each data set on the excel folder? Or would that require the name being in the excel data? Thanks!
ds = spreadsheetDatastore(pwd,'IncludeSubfolders',true);
idx = [];
for i = 1:length(ds.Files)
if strfind(ds.Files{i},'Copy')
idx = [idx;i];
end
end
out = table();
for i = 1:length(ds.Files)
data = ds.read();
filepath = fileparts(ds.Files{i});
data.folder = repmat({filepath},height(data),1);
out = [out;data];
end
out

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Hi Jen ,
I am using R2018b, and there is a wonderful datatype: datastore which does this for you. A variation of it is the spreadsheetdatastore.
if you do something like:
ds = datastore('*inflection*.xlsx');
mydata = ds.readall();
writetable(mydata,'mymasterexcelfile.xlsx');
This should give you what you are looking for. I would spend sometime looking at datastores and the spreadsheetdatastore as they are both very useful comands.

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Jen
Jen 2019-2-25
编辑:Jen 2019-2-25
Thank you for your answer!
I'm trying this and getting an error that says "Cannot find files or folders matching: '*inflection*.xls'." Is this because the file name is longer than just inflection?

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Try the following:
ds = spreadsheetDatastore(pwd,'IncludeSubfolders',true)
where pwd is the root folder.

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Thank you! That got rid of the error, but now it is compiling all the excel files not just the inflection ones, can i add the inflection.xls somewhere to identify those?

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