path2cell

PURPOSE ^

PATH2CELL Convert search path to cell array.

SYNOPSIS ^

function pathlist = path2cell(pathstr)

DESCRIPTION ^

PATH2CELL Convert search path to cell array.

   PATH2CELL returns a cell array where each element is a directory
   in the search path.

   PATH2CELL(MYPATH) converts MYPATH rather than the search path.

   Empty directories are removed, so under UNIX, PATH2CELL('foo::bar')
   returns {'foo', 'bar'} rather than {'foo', '', 'bar'}.

CROSS-REFERENCE INFORMATION ^

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SOURCE CODE ^

0001 function pathlist = path2cell(pathstr)
0002 %PATH2CELL Convert search path to cell array.
0003 %
0004 %   PATH2CELL returns a cell array where each element is a directory
0005 %   in the search path.
0006 %
0007 %   PATH2CELL(MYPATH) converts MYPATH rather than the search path.
0008 %
0009 %   Empty directories are removed, so under UNIX, PATH2CELL('foo::bar')
0010 %   returns {'foo', 'bar'} rather than {'foo', '', 'bar'}.
0011 
0012 %   Author:      Peter J. Acklam
0013 %   Time-stamp:  2001-10-18 21:23:19 +0200
0014 %   E-mail:      pjacklam@online.no
0015 %   URL:         http://home.online.no/~pjacklam
0016 
0017    % check number of input arguments
0018    error(nargchk(0, 1, nargin));
0019 
0020    % use MATLAB's search path if no input path is given
0021    if ~nargin
0022       pathstr = path;
0023    end
0024 
0025    k = find(pathstr == pathsep);            % find path separators
0026    k = [0 k length(pathstr)+1];             % find directory boundaries
0027    ndirs = length(k)-1;                     % number of directories
0028    pathlist = cell(0);                      % initialize output argument
0029    for i = 1 : ndirs
0030       dir = pathstr(k(i)+1 : k(i+1)-1);     % get i'th directory
0031       if ~isempty(dir)                      % if non-empty...
0032          pathlist{end+1,1} = dir;           % ...append to list
0033       end
0034    end

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