How to force Matlab to read files in a folder serially?

Question

I have files in a folder that are numbered from writer_1 to writer_20. I wrote a code to read all the files and store them in cells. But the problem is

Answer 1

I don't know of any direct solutions to the problem you are having. I found a solution for a problem similar to yours, here

List = dir('*.png');
Name = {List.name};
S = sprintf('%s,', Name{:});    % '10.png,100.png,1000.png,20.png, ...'
D = sscanf(S, '%d.png,');       % [10; 100, 1000; 20; ...]
[sortedD, sortIndex] = sort(D); % Sort numerically
sortedName = Name(sortIndex);   % Apply sorting index to original names

Differences are:

1. You are dealing with directories instead of files
2. Your directories have other text in their names in addition to the numbers