Recursively search for files
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                  Matt Tearle
                    
                
                
                  Recursively finds all instances of files and folders with a naming pattern
                
                  
              Returns a list of all files matching a given pattern (*.m, *.mat, data*.xls*, etc) that live anywhere in or below a given starting folder.
For example, >> files = findfiles('*.mat','C:\myfolder'); will find C:\myfolder\foo.mat, C:\myfolder\data.mat, C:\myfolder\mydata\data.mat, etc.
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Matt Tearle (2025). Recursively search for files (https://se.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/57298-recursively-search-for-files), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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              R2016a
            
            
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