How do i renaming files based on their folder names?

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Dear all
i have many folders that exist in certain directory.. every folder includes some images with ambiguous name.. i would like to rename these images based on their its parent folder name.. but the problem in the following code .. images names are numbers like (1245451116 , 4654646654, 44465464 ....) and this code do not able to renaming its :
result perhaps look like the following : folder1 images names becomes : folder1-1; folder1-2; .... folder2 images names becomes: folder2-1; folder2-2; etc...
projectdir = 'D:\RESULT\Evaluation\categorized';
dinfo = dir(projectdir);
dinfo(~[dinfo.isdir]) = []; %remove non-folders
dinfo(ismember({dinfo.name}, {'.', '..'})) = []; %remove . and .. directories
num_subdir = length(dinfo);
for S = 1 : num_subdir
this_subdir = dinfo(S).name;
subdinfo = dir( fullfile(projectdir, this_subdir, '*.jpg') );
num_subfile = length(subdinfo);
for F = 1 : num_subfile
this_file = subdinfo(F).name;
old_file = fullfile( projectdir, this_subdir, this_file );
new_file = fullfile( projectdir, this_subdir, [this_subdir '-' this_file] );
try
movefile(old_file, new_file);
catch ME
fprintf('Failed to rename "%s" to "%s"\n', old_file, new_file );
end
end
end

Answers (1)

dpb
dpb on 16 Apr 2017
Edited: dpb on 16 Apr 2017
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for F=1:length(subdinfo) % no need for temporary variable here
[~,n,e]=fileparts(subdinfo(F).name); % get the name, extension
fname=sprintf('%s-%04d%s%s',this_subdir,n,F,e); % build new name from the pieces-parts
try
movefile(fullfile(projectdir,this_subdir,this_file),fullfile(projectdir,fname);
...

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