Creating string variables and paths to a directory

I need to create a string variables with the name of the file, the path to the directory with input file

(then join them) and path to the directory for my output. The directory with my output

should contain in its name the current date and time in the format ‘yyyymmdd_HHMMSS’. I am quite new with Matlab, any help would be gretaly appriciated.

Answer 1

[Matt J]

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