list handeling

I have a script that is asking me what files should it manipulate.

the two categories of files are

Hello1_14022011_1_XV_xls and Hello1_14022011_1_SF_XV_xls

when the question arise (so that the program can make the directory of all the files and manipulate them) in the program i put Hello1_****2011_*_XV_xls for the first category. The problem is that the fifth * will make the program to understand both the categories.

Is there a a way to stop the name reading at those situations?

By doing a if loop i can have some results

for ilistA = 1:length(listA)

 if strfind (listA(ilistA).name, '_SF_')>0
    listA(ilistA).name = []
end
end

This will make me the list with only the names of files I need and a blank spot in the place of the files i didnt need. How can i cut the blank sports and make the list only with the names I need.

Any other ideas are accepted :) Thanks

Answer 1

[Daniel Shub]

listA = struct('name', {'a', 'b', 'x_SF_y', 'c', 'd', 'a_SF_b'});
listA = listA(cellfun(@isempty, strfind({listA.name}, '_SF_')))