Re: General algorithm to find systematically named files in sub-directories

[Markus Appel]

On 06/08/2013 04:53 AM, bondmatt wrote:

> The LATEX portion is holding me up at the moment but only because I need to
> bring myself up to speed on the language. If anyone knows how to put a
> header on the table of contents page...

I am not exactly sure what you mean, but have a look at the 
\addcontentsline command:

\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{This text will appear in the toc and look 
like a section}

> Depending on what is being tested the number of samples will vary. One
> thought is a sort of brute force search through all 999 possible folders but
> I am hoping there is a smarter way to do this?

If I understood correctly, you want to iterate over all files named e.g. 
sample1.wav in all project_XXX subdirectories? IMHO the best way for 
doing this would be something like:

files = glob("project_*/sample1.wav");
for f = files{:}'
  disp(f{1});
endfor

glob gives you a cell array of all matching filenames and can also be 
used to look in different subdirectories.

Cheers,
Markus