How to search pathname for string

Hi,

I'm using this code to give the filepath of the selected file:

[FileName,PathName,FilterIndex] = uigetfile

PathName = T:\Field Test\Field Test Scripts\Master Files\For Single Screen File\Final Combined Script\OLD\

Now I want to search this pathname for 'OLD', so I used this code:

strcmpi(PathName, 'OLD')

But it always returns false:

ans =

       0

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Answer 1

[José-Luis]

You are comparing two strings for equality, and the comparison is not case sensitive (help strcmpi). What you wanted to do, I guess, is to find out if a string is included in another string. For that i would recommend:

isFound = ~isempty(regexp(Pathname,'OLD'));

Cheers!

[Aadil]

thanks a lot

[José-Luis]

My pleasure!

[Jan]

Faster:

isFound = strfind(Pathname, 'OLD')

Safer:

isFound = strfind(fullfile(Pathname, filesep), [filesep, 'OLD', filesep])

This avoids a false match for "C:\Temp\REINHOLD\newData\".