synonyms functions for uigetfile or uiopen

synonyms functions for uigetfile or uiopen

trying to open a text file, but do it in a way i can select muiltple different files

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You can use uigetfile() with 'multiselect', 'on' .

The first output of uigetfile() will be numeric if the user cancelled.

The first output of uigetfile() will be a character vector if the user selected exactly one file.

The first output of uigetfile() will be a cell array of character vector if the user selected more than one file.

I suggest using something like,

[selfiles, selpath] = uigetfile('*.txt', 'multiselect', 'on');
if isnumeric(selfiles); return; end   %user cancel
filenames = fullfile(selpath, cellstr(selfiles));

After that, filenames will be a cell array of character vectors of fully-qualified file names; you will not need to test for the special case that the user selected exactly one file.