Question

I am using dir function to list the content of a folder but it gives . and .. for first two folder. Is there any way to get rod of this silly process.

Can I use regular expression in dir function ? (if I can, it can be a solution)

Answer 1

I don’t know of any built-in solution, but I tend to do the following:

d = dir ('C:\');
d(~[d.isdir])= []; %Remove all non directories.
names = setdiff({d.name},{'.','..'});

The setdiff command removes the unwanted elements.

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Another cheap way to get rid of . and .. is using wildcards (Windows only):

d = dir ('C:\*.*');