Search through folders and subfolders to collect data saved as a certain name

I've read documentation on different sectionf of this problem but I don't quite understand how to structure the script to search through dubfolders to pull out a .mat saved under a certain name "Data01.mat", "Data02.mat". I'll be taking this script to also save in the same folder with a slightly different name as well.

[Rik]

Using dir with a double asterisk should do the trick. Do you want to find all mat files in your folders?

[new2matlab]

Im looking to pull specific ones but they're spread out between different folders within a folder. Unsure on how to search through those different levels of folders all at the same time.

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

a=dir('**/Data*.mat')