Not able to cd into a folder

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Yash Khandelwal
Yash Khandelwal on 13 Jul 2022
Answered: Voss on 13 Jul 2022
I have to make a folder in my project and then cd into it but not able to. The code line looks like this:
name="yash";
mkdir("dB_"+name);
Then I want to cd into that folder but not able to. Please help

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Anay Aggarwal
Anay Aggarwal on 13 Jul 2022
Hi Yash
I have an understanding that you want to create a folder and then cd into it while runtime.
Following might help:
name="yash";
mkdir("dB_"+name); % create a folder
cd ([ 'dB_' convertContainedStringsToChars(name) ]);
This would create a folder and cd into it while runtime.
Regards

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Voss
Voss on 13 Jul 2022
Maybe check that mkdir successfully creates the directory:
name="yash";
status = mkdir("dB_"+name)
status = logical
1
Here status is true, so we know the directory was created.
Then cd into it:
cd("dB_"+name);
cd() % show the current working directory
/users/mss.system.QlbB51/dB_yash
If mkdir returns false, it means mkdir was not able to create the directory, maybe because you don't have write permissions in the parent directory (i.e., the directory you're in when you call mkdir).

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