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Ramiro Rea
Ramiro Rea on 8 Aug 2017
Commented: Stephen23 on 6 Sep 2024 at 10:56
Hi everyone,
I would like to find the files inside a folder that have a letter 's' in the first position of its name. Then I would like to get the file name of those files that have that condition. In this folder I have files starting with 'csc', 'ms', 'c2s', so finding those names that contain the letter 's' is not an option (I had already tried those using dir and contains functions). Do you have any idea how to solve this?
Many thanks, Ramiro

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aborghes
aborghes on 8 Aug 2017
Hi Ramiro,
I would recommend using the startsWith function. It should do what you are looking for.
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 8 Aug 2017
Why so complex? Using dir is simpler:
S = dir('s*.*')
Ramiro Rea
Ramiro Rea on 8 Aug 2017
That one works too. I forgot to add the * after 's in my script, that explain why this option was not working. Thanks!

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