Sorting file (from a text file) and copying file to the new folder

Dear MATLAB experts

I want to sort the content of file based on the text file (e.g. *.txt) and then copy all the list files into another directory.

Source: C:\ sub001 (a list of subjects on the text file) ○ A ■ Sub-directory ○ B ■ Sub-directory

Text file: sub001 , sub002 and etc.

Destination: D:\Sorter

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Thanks for considering my questions.

Best wishes

Larry Lai

[Paolo]

So you want to open text files, read their contents and move said files to a different destination according to the contents?

What do the text files look like?

[Larry Lai]

Hi Paolo

Yes, please find the attached text file.

Thanks

Answer 1

[Paolo]

If I am understanding the question correctly the following should help you:

 fid = fopen('SubjectsID.txt')
 while ~feof(fid)
     tline = fgetl(fid);
     name = strcat(tline,'.txt');
     movefile(name,'D:\Sorter')
 end

[Larry Lai]

Thanks you.

FYI.

*Error using movefile No matching files were found. *

[Paolo]

Are the files located in the current directory? Is their extension .txt?

[Larry Lai]

The files located in the different directory. Please find the files structure as following: http://bids.neuroimaging.io/

Thanks