Can Í have a listener in a class that checks if the folder-content is changed?

I have a folder that recievs files from time to time and I want matlab to plot the data directly as they arive in the folder...

can I add a listener that checks if for example

folderContents=dir;

is changed since last time? thenks in advance/M (FYI I'm pretty new to working with classes and never used a listener before)

Answer 1

[Wilson A N]

You can use the 'addlistener' function to do this. The below link describes it:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/use-net-events-in-matlab.html

You can also check out the other answers in the links given below which more or less address your query:

• https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/99277-how-do-i-programmatically-detect-a-change-in-a-directory
• https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/9957-using-net-filesystemwatcher-to-listen-for-new-files