diary, how to create a new one

I have a .m file I want to save the text at the command window. Next time I run the m-file I want to create a new diary file. This however seem to be problematic. I try to save the diary with a new filename but I get the message that the file doesn't exist.

Any idea how to solve this?

Answer 1

[Mohammad Abouali]

could you paste the value for savdir and ['file_',mfilename,myFolder(53:end),'diary.txt']?

also execute fullfile(savdir,['file_',mfilename,myFolder(53:end),'diary.txt']) and check if that runs ok.

Answer 2

[Dave]

Automatic date and time append:

 diary(['diary_',datestr(now,'dd-mm-yy','local'),'_',datestr(now,'hh-MM-ss','local'),'.txt'])

Answer 3

[Sean de Wolski]

Pass diary a filename

http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2014b/matlab/ref/diary.html

[Lizan]

This doesn't work for me. I get "file not found." error My code is;

Error in myfile (line 25)
diary(fullfile(savdir,['file_',mfilename,myFolder(53:end),'diary.txt']))

[Sean de Wolski]

Well I have no clue what those variables are do I don't know what it means. What happens if you put a breakpoint on that line and print the output from fullfile