Make one word in path name a variable

Can I make one variable in a path name a variable?

'C:\Users\Jane....'

'C:\Users\George....'

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

Yes, but you will need to be a little more specific about the rule for finding what part of the string you want. One step that might help you is to use the regexp command to find the locations of the slashes:

pathNameVar = 'C:\Users\Jane....';
slashIndices = regexp(pathNameVar,'\');

So, for example, if you wanted everything after the last slash to be your variable, then

varName = pathNameVar(slashIndices(end)+1:end);

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

With "names" as your existing variable, try fullfile() to create a new variable with name "thisFolderName":

names = {'Jane', 'George', 'Nancy', 'Image Analyst'};
'C:\Users\Jane....';
for k = 1 : length(names)
	thisFolderName = fullfile('C:\users\', names{k})
     % Now do something with thisFolderName
end

You'll see

thisFolderName =

'C:\users\Jane'

thisFolderName =

'C:\users\George'

thisFolderName =

'C:\users\Nancy'

thisFolderName =

'C:\users\Image Analyst'

[Nancy Hammond]

It's the name after Users that I want to be variable. The resto if the path nake and file name remain the same

This was the Matlab code I was using. But with multi files, this adds too much complexity to the code:

if home ==1

xfb= load ('C:\Users\Nancy\Documents\Research\Data\CRSP\famablissprices.txt');

else

xfb= load ('C:\Users\Zenobia\Documents\Research\Data\CRSP\famablissprices.txt');

end

So would that be:

varName = pathNameVar(slashIndices(2):slashIndices(3));

Thank you for showing me how to think about this.

[Image Analyst]

How is the program supposed to know where the names Nancy and Zenobia come from? Are they already folders on the disk, like you can just use dir('c:/users/') to find out about?