Iterations of copyfile function across files

I have 4 files (S001, S002, S003, S004) in the following path

C:\doss1\doss2\doss3\doss4\doss5\

Each file has a subfloder "rest_ctrl".

S001

rest_ctrl

S002

rest_ctrl

S003

rest_ctrl

S004

rest_ctrl

Aim: To copy and paste the files insde each file (indexed with the 'a*') in a different folder.

I defined the source and destination folders as follows:

SourcePath ='C:\doss1\doss2\doss3\doss4\doss5\';     
Participant = 'S001';
SourceFolder = fullfile([SourcePath,Participant],'rest_ctrl');

And the destination folder as follows:

DistPath ='D:\doss1\doss2\doss3\doss4\doss5\doss6\';
DistFolder = fullfile(DistPath,'S001');
if ~exist(DistFolder)
    mkdir(DistFolder)
end

The code works fine when I use the "copyfile" function subjectwise:

copyfile(fullfile(SourceFolder,'a*'),DistFolder);

How can I iterate it in order to have all the content of the source files (i.e., S001/ rest_ctrl/a... S004/ rest_ctrl/a...) in the destination folder?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Abhijeet]

Hi Julian Gaviria,

I can understand that you want to do similar file operations on multiple file using for loop.

Please refer to this basic code template.

Here do_file_operation function takes in the file name like S001 and performs the required operation .

Participant = 'S00';

for i=1:4

suffix=num2str(i);

newParticipant=strcat(Participant,suffix);

%function for performing file operation

do_file_operation(newParticipant);

end