How to load a .mat file from the parent directory?

How to load a file which is in the parent directory of the running script?

Answer 1

[Joseph Cheng]

you can determine your current directory with pwd.

so to load the file it'll go something like this

 myfile = 'mymatfile.mat';
 [parentdir,~,~]=fileparts(pwd);
 load(fullfile(parentdir,myfile))

Answer 2

[Stephen23]

Simpler and more efficient with a relative pathname using the dotdot-folder name to access the parent folder:

load('../mymatfile.mat')

See: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_env/specify-file-names.html