Separate path string into drive and folders

Hi,

using fileparts brings the path, the name and the exentension of a fullfile (e.g., C:\user\files\myFile.txt). Is there a function that separates the path into drive and folders, so that drive = 'C:' folder1 = 'user' folder2 = 'files' ?

Thx, Philipp

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

s='C:\user\files\myFile.txt'
out=regexp(s,'\','split')

[Manuel Lera Ramirez]

For a general solution (would work on any OS) I would suggest

endout=regexp(s,filesep,'split')

Best

[baby]

works for me as well.

[Riad]

Hello,

filesep is equivalent to "\" and it works fine for a kind of paths. But I've troubles when I want to separate paths that use this separator "/". I mean: when you derive blocks paths (using "find_system") you'll get paths like this : 'Swc_MTR/Run_MTR_1ms_sys/COMP_/In1' and :

regexp('Swc_MTR/Run_MTR_1ms_sys/COMP_/In1',filesep,'split')

won't work !

I want to avoid strsplit function by using a function that can work for both Windows/Linux OS !

Anyone can help ?

[Stephen23]

@Mohamed Riad: because you are already using REGEXP this is quite easy:

regexp('Swc_MTR/Run_MTR_1ms_sys/COMP_/In1','[/\\]+','split')

ans = 1x4 cell array
    {'Swc_MTR'}    {'Run_MTR_1ms_sys'}    {'COMP_'}    {'In1'}

[Riad]

Hi @Stephen23 there more easier way by using strsplit but I want to avoid using either "/" or "\" in the script (on the server, I've a Linux OS):

strsplit('Swc_MTR/Run_MTR_1ms_sys/COMP_/In1','/')

ans =

1×4 cell array

{'Swc_MTR'} {'Run_MTR_1ms_sys'} {'COMP_'} {'In1'}

[Stephen23]

"filesep is equivalent to "\" and it works fine for a kind of paths"

No, what FILESEP is depends on the OS that MATLAB is currently running on.

"I want to avoid strsplit function by using a function that can work for both Windows/Linux OS !"

And now you write that you want to use STRSPLIT: your requirements keep on changing.

"I want to avoid using either "/" or "\" in the script (on the server, I've a Linux OS)"

I thought the requirement is to split on either of the path separators, which is also easy with STRSPLIT:

strsplit('Swc_MTR/Run_MTR_1ms_sys/COMP_/In1',{'/','\'})

ans = 1x4 cell array
    {'Swc_MTR'}    {'Run_MTR_1ms_sys'}    {'COMP_'}    {'In1'}

Answer 2

[Christian Schwermer]

The shortest solution is to split the string using filesep as delimeter. filesep returns the platform-specific file separator "\" or "/".

pathparts = strsplit(s,filesep);

Answer 3

[Dominique]

path = uigetdir()
foldername = strsplit(path,"\");
foldername = foldername(end);