Re: Parse a directory

[Bill Denney]

Just so that you know, I think that Stefan meant "ask if you need more 
detail".

Bill

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Stefan van der Walt wrote:

> You are using a very old version of Octave.  If you are running on a
> linux platform, packages should be available.  Under windows, please
> use the cygwin installer (as if you need more detail).
>
> The code below works fine for me under 2.1.71.
>
> Regards
> Stéfan
>
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:27:52PM +0100, Achim Graupner wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I want to read a bunch of files in a directory. I Matlab I would do this
> > like
> > > myfiles = dir('./*.dat')
> > myfiles =
> > 4x1 struct array with fields:
> >     name
> >     date
> >     bytes
> >     isdir
> > as seen, myfiles is an array of struct containing all filenames, sizes etc.
> >
> > in octave (2.1.50) I get the error message
> > > myfiles = dir('./*.dat')
> > error: value on right hand side of assignment is undefined
> > error: evaluating assignment expression near line 11, column 2
> >
> > in octave, myfiles does not get assigned.
>
>
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