Looping over folders, skipping a folder if a file is present

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Clifford Shelton
Clifford Shelton 2013-2-3
I have code that executes a for loop through a folder and all of its subdirectories. My questions is how do I write the code in order to :
A.) check if a file is present within the folder in the for loop, and then
B.) skip that folder containing the file IF the file is present.
Here is the code i have been fumbling with so far:
mainFolder = 'c:\data';
subdirs = dir(mainFolder);
%This filters out all the items in the main folder that are not directories
subdirs(~[subdirs.isdir]) = [];
%And this filters out the parent and current directory '.' and '..'
tf = ismember( {subdirs.name}, {'.', '..'});
subdirs(tf) = [];
numberOfFolders = length(subdirs);
% %Here i am creating the variables to iterate over the date folders
% dates = fieldnames(subdirs);
% for loopIndex = 1:numel(dates)
% stuff = subdirs.(dates{loopIndex})
% end
% Here I begin the for loop. My aim is to tell the program to skip all %the folders that contain the file "Present.txt"
for K = 1: numberOfFolders
thissubdir = subdirs(K).name;
subdirpath = [mainFolder '\' thissubdir];
%This is WRONG WRONG WRONG... help please?
if exist('Present.txt') == 1
continue
end
Thanks for all the help!

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst 2013-2-3
编辑：Image Analyst 2013-2-3
Since you aren't calling cd for every subdir (that's good by the way), you need to construct the full file name.
fullfileName = fullfile(subdirpath, 'Present.txt');
if exist(fullfileName , 'file') == 2
% Then the file exists, skip the rest of the code in the loop.
continue
end

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Cedric
Cedric 2013-2-3
编辑：Cedric 2013-2-3
EDIT: jump to the solution provided by Image Analyst, it is better.
You should use fullfile() for building subdirpath. Now there are several solutions for you to check the existence of the file; but to stick to what you already used, you could do something like:
subdircontent = dir(subdirpath) ;
if ismember('Present.txt', {subdircontent.name})
...
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Jan
Jan 2013-2-3
ismember has a large overhead, e.g. a sorting or the strings. Therefore this is more efficient:
if any(strcmp('Present.txt', {subdircontent.name}))
But I admit, it will hardly make a program noticably faster...

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