From: Alex Eptas on
"us " <us(a)neurol.unizh.ch> wrote in message <i2i62f$aot$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Alex Eptas" <fe09ae(a)mail.wbs.ac.uk> wrote in message <i2i528$7uv$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> > "us " <us(a)neurol.unizh.ch> wrote in message <i2i2p6$g0o$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> > > "Alex Eptas" <fe09ae(a)mail.wbs.ac.uk> wrote in message <i2hsgg$hhv$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> > > > Hi Rune
> > > > Sorry if you think i am wining, i am a very basic user, obviously things like this are very easy to you. When i try the specific example you have it works find. However when i try to use it to get a list of stocks or dates for the entire data set it does not work;
> > > >
> > > > rootDir = 'C:\Desktop\Dissertation Data\lseTickBins\';
> > > >
> > > > tmp = dir([rootDir '*.csv']); % Note with the csv files you need '*.csv' NOT '*.*.csv'
> > >
> > > one of the many solutions
> > >
> > > flst=dir(...); % <- your DIR command...
> > > flst={flst.name}.';
> > > up=regexp(flst,'_','once'); % <- in case there is more than one underscore...
> > > % or: STRFIND()...
> > > up=[up{:}];
> > >
> > > us
> >
> >
> > Many thanks for your code which worked find.
> > When i have created the up vector how do i get the list of dates or stocks.?
> > thanks
>
> well...
> one of the solutions
> - to simply extract the trailing dates...
>
> % the data
> % - assume this is how your FLST looks like...
> flst={
> 'ab_20080101'
> 'c_20090202'
> 'def_20100303'
> };
> % the engine
> r=regexp(flst,'(?<=_)\d+','match');
> r=[r{:}];
> % the result
> disp(r);
> %{
> '20080101'
> '20090202'
> '20100303'
> %}
>
> us

Thanks for your help it is much appreciated