find/match a file to a partial filename

[Rose]

Hi,

I have been looking but can't seem to find exactly what I need. I have a
series of files which have a date and time stamp in the filename in the
format: dataYYMMDDHHMMSS.csv

I need to read in the files by hour, ignoring the minutes and seconds in the
filename. Currently I can do this for files with minutes and seconds equal
to zero e.g data130425050000.csv using:

    i = 0:24 
    filein = sprintf ("c:/Documents and Settings/My
Documents/data130425%02d0000.csv", i); 

But I'm not sure how to do it when the minutes and seconds are not zero, I
have just been typing in the numbers manually but this takes too long. I'm
sure there must be someway to automate it and ignore the last part of the
filename or tell it to accept the filename no matter what the minutes and
seconds are. No idea how to do it though, can you help?

Thanks,

Rose




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