Capture file name from uiimport function

I would like to use the filename string of the file that I choose when I use the uiimport function. I am sure that Matlab stores the string somewhere but I don't know how t find it.

Answer 1

[Chirag Gupta]

Well it stores it internally (its buried in the code). You can check the code by typing edit uiimport. uiimport does not really output the filename selected and I wouldn't recommend changing the code in there before backing up.

An alternative solution might be:

[filename,path] = uigetfile; % opens up a similar dialog to uiimport to select a file
uiimport(fullfile(path,filename)); % directly imports the selected file

doc uigetfile

[Walter Roberson]

I looked myself, and as best I can tell the filename is not usually made available. In a subset of cases, you can get traces of it by looking at the field names of the structure returned, but that is unreliable and incomplete and does not apply for all the file types that are supported.