Unzipping code in a loop within another loop?

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George Choa
George Choa on 26 Jul 2017
Commented: Jan on 28 Jul 2017
Quite a beginner in MATLAB so finding it a little difficult to construct the code for this... I currently have zipped files within folders within folders, which I need to unzip before manipulating the data further. I believe I need some form of a loop within a loop for this to work? But have no idea how to script this! Any help would be appreciated!

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 26 Jul 2017
Since you are a beginner, I will assume you are running R2017a or later.
projectdir = 'TopLevelFolder'; %can be fully qualified
%this next requires R2017a or later
dinfo = dir( fullfile( projectdir, '**', '*.zip') ); %find all .zip underneath the projectdir.
%then
for K = 1 : length(dinfo)
unzip( dinfo(K).name, dinfo(K).folder ); %still needs R2017a or later
end
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George Choa
George Choa on 28 Jul 2017
Hi Walter, so would this not work with R2016b?
Jan
Jan on 28 Jul 2017
It works well under R2016b. I assume Walter means the '**' key in dir, but this was support in R2016b as well as the field 'folder'. If you are in doubt, George, simply try to run the code: If it runs, it runs.

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