Re: Parse a directory

[Stefan van der Walt]

You are using a very old version of Octave.  If you are running on a
linux platform, packages should be available.  Under windows, please
use the cygwin installer (as if you need more detail).

The code below works fine for me under 2.1.71.

Regards
Stéfan

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:27:52PM +0100, Achim Graupner wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to read a bunch of files in a directory. I Matlab I would do this 
> like
> > myfiles = dir('./*.dat')
> myfiles =
> 4x1 struct array with fields:
>     name
>     date
>     bytes
>     isdir
> as seen, myfiles is an array of struct containing all filenames, sizes etc.
> 
> in octave (2.1.50) I get the error message
> > myfiles = dir('./*.dat')
> error: value on right hand side of assignment is undefined
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 11, column 2
> 
> in octave, myfiles does not get assigned.



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