Fullfile function gives me a false reading with the slash symbol

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fileToRead = fullfile('C:\Users\thomas\Files\' CCC '.csv');
CCC is a string file with CCC='Tax'
I get the following:
C:\Users\thomas\Files\Tax\.csv
but I want the following
C:\Users\thomas\Files\Tax.csv

Accepted Answer

Peng Li
Peng Li on 29 Mar 2020
fileToRead = fullfile('C:\Users\thomas\Files\', [CCC '.csv']);

More Answers (1)

darova
darova on 29 Mar 2020
Try this
Or you can remove slash symbol
fileToRead(end-5) = [];
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 30 Mar 2020
Edited: Stephen23 on 30 Mar 2020
There is absolutely no point in doing this:
This answer confuses two different ways of creating the full filename: string concatenation OR using fullfile. It makes absolutely NO sense to combine the two as shown in this answer, which has all of the disadvantages of string concatenation (no automatic handling of the slash/backslash) and only one input to fullfile (thus making it totally superfluous anyway).
I strongly recommend that users read about fullfile before blindly copying this answer.

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