How to handle load errors.

I have a large number of files to read and proces. A small percentage of these files are corrupted. I use the load() command to load individual files in a parfor loop statement. Unfortunately my program stops ececution when one of these corrupt files gives an error when loading.

How could I continue execution? Buy this I mean advancing the loop variable and not processing the data from faulty file?

I also need to record the name of the file that triggered the error.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

try
    filestruct = load(FileName);
catch ME
    bad_files{end+1} = FileName;
    continue;  %skip computing with this file
end

[Vahe Ghazikhanian]

Unfortunately I am getteing the following error:

Error in test_files (line 66)

bad_files{end+1} = fileName;

[Walter Roberson]

I need to see the surrounding code.

In my sample code, FileName should be replaced by the name of the variable that the file name is stored in.

bad_files should be initialized as {}

[Vahe Ghazikhanian]

Thanks, after I initialized it seems to work.