Separate path string into drive and folders

Hi,

using fileparts brings the path, the name and the exentension of a fullfile (e.g., C:\user\files\myFile.txt). Is there a function that separates the path into drive and folders, so that drive = 'C:' folder1 = 'user' folder2 = 'files' ?

Thx, Philipp

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

s='C:\user\files\myFile.txt'
out=regexp(s,'\','split')

[Manuel Lera Ramirez]

For a general solution (would work on any OS) I would suggest

endout=regexp(s,filesep,'split')

Best

[baby]

works for me as well.

Answer 2

[Christian Schwermer]

The shortest solution is to split the string using filesep as delimeter. filesep returns the platform-specific file separator "\" or "/".

pathparts = strsplit(s,filesep);

Answer 3

[Dominique]

path = uigetdir()
foldername = strsplit(path,"\");
foldername = foldername(end);