How to filter out files with a list of specific string in UIGETFILE command?

Hi,

I need to filter the visible list of files containing multiple possible specific strings with UIGETFILE.

Example:

My folder contains following files:

• EFI100.xls
• EFA200.xls
• EFA500.xls
• EFB100.xls
• etc.

I would like to see only EFA*.xls and EFB*.xls file in te selection list.

The command [xlsfile] = uigetfile('EFA*.xls','Select Excel file') works, ok.

But I want to list EFI*.xls too, I can I do?

Thanks.

Answer 1

[Jonas]

you can provide mutiple filters to choose from:

uigetfile({'EFA*.xls;EFB*.xls'},'Select a File');

this shows EFA*.xls files and EFB*.xls files

[Jan]

Confirmed.

[Gabriel Buche]

It works!

The problem is that I used this command: uigetfile({'EFA*.xls'; 'EFB*.xls'},'Select Excel file') with single quotation marks between EFA.xls and EFB.xls.

Thanks!

Answer 2

[Jan]

As far as I can see, the file pattern [x] is not implemented in uigetfile:

xlsfile = uigetfile('EF[AI]*.xls', 'Select Excel file')  % Not working

I've tried this with R2018b only.