How to delete the ending / last characters of files?

Dear all,

I got a list of '...edf.html' files (e.g. 00014654_s001_t000.edf.html).

I want to delete for all files the '.html' part. How can I do it?

[Stephen23]

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fileparts.html

Answer 1

[Rashed Mohammed]

Hi Haron

As suggested by Stephen, you can use fileparts and movefile functions to delete the '.html' part from your filenames. Below is a sample code.

files = dir('*.edf.html');
for ii=1:length(files)
    oldname = files(ii).name;
    [path,newname,ext] = fileparts(oldname);
    movefile(oldname,newname);
end

Hope this helps

[Rik]

This will not work. You need to use the function syntax, not the command syntax. I'm personally always in favor of switching, but in this case this is even a bug.

[Rashed Mohammed]

Thanks Rik for pointing out the bug. Updated the code

[Haron Shaker]

files = dir('/Users/haron/Desktop/Work/Haron/aprikose_edfs/*.edf.html');
for ii=1:length(files)
    oldname = fullfile(files(ii).folder,files(ii).name);
    [path,newname,ext] = fileparts(oldname);
    movefile(oldname,fullfile(path, newname));
end