How to check a pattern in a string in matlab?

Question

I want to check if a specific pattern was in a string to do some action

[filename pathname]=uigetfile
fullpath=[pathname filename]

In my p

Answer 1

You can select a folder and then import only those pictures which match a pattern by using directly dir() and wildcard *:

dir('C:\Users\username\Desktop\folder\*_cam*.jpg')