select all .xls files together and read one by one( without naming .xls file in a specified name)

in a folder there are several .xls files and name of these aren't specified. it's needed by selecting 1 or 2 or 3 or ever other numbers of those, one by on has been read by MATLAB and then display this message fprint'filename.xls checked' for example:these files are in folder: a.xls, as.xls, lku.xls, fd.xls,... after reading each one, matlab show message about that, 'like:a.xls checked'

my opinion:

cd(path of the folder);
put names of all files in a matrix like r
for i=1:size(r,1)
[dfile,pathname]=uigetfile('*.xls','Select Data File');

f = xlsread(dfile(1,i))
func(f)%%func is a function that do something on f and give some outputs
fprint'filename.xls checked'
end

thanks a lot

Answer 1

[bym]

d = dir('*.xls');

for k = 1:numel(d)
    %open file & do stuff here
    fprintf('%s\tchecked\n',d(k).name)
end

[mohammad]

thanks alot

i have this warning for fprintf('%s\start\n',h(k).name)

Warning: Invalid escape sequence appears in format string. See help sprintf for valid escape sequences.

[Fangjun Jiang]

If you want to print a '\' symbol, you need to specify it as fprintf('\\')

[mohammad]

thanks, perfect, i didn't type 't' after '\' in fprintf('%s\start\n',h(k).name)

now there is no warning

thanks a lot