Comparing strings of different lengths.

I am trying to compare two filenames. I've assigned the filenames to varialbles, and I'm trying to compare the file names, if they match i need to perform some functions, if they do not match i need to skip.

Here's my code. It's inefficient, but It does what I need right now and I don't have time to go back and make it better.

clc;
clear all;
file = uigetdir;
contents = dir(file);
Data = fullfile(file,'Data')
 
for i = 1:length(contents)
    
 
  [null,fName,fExt] = fileparts(contents(i).name);
    L = strlength(fName);
    G = L>10;
   
  
  if G == 1
   
       
 switch lower(fExt)
 case '.txt'
     
        samplefile = readcell(fName);
        
     
    disp('1')
    
   
     
     file2 = fullfile(Data,'*.txt');
     specontents = dir(file2);
      SampleID = cell2mat(samplefile(7,1))
     
     for k = 1:length(specontents)
     
        [null, fName1, fExt1] = fileparts(specontents(k).name);
     
    specimenfile = readcell(fName1);
    
    SpecID = cell2mat(specimenfile(3,2))
    
    if SampleID == SpecID
        
        disp('yes')
        
    else
        continue
        
    end
    
   
  
    
    %   if sample ID in sample file == sample ID in specimen file
    
    
    %disp(test)
     
     end
     %if samplefile <= length(samplefile)
        %samplefile = readcell(fName)
     %SampleID = cell2mat(samplefile(7,1))
     
    % disp(speciminfile)
     
    
    disp('YAY')
     continue
    
 end
 
  else
  
  disp('toss')
  
      
       
  end
  
  %disp('end')
        
end
disp('end')

Answer 1

[Mara]

So is your question how to shorten your code? Maybe try this statement

if strcmp(filename1, filename2)
    % Whatever you want it to perform if they are identical
end

Otherwise, if you do not look for completely identical filenames, there is the function contains().