`isfile`

Tests whether a name is an existing file.

Category: Programming > Files and Folders

Syntax

tf = isfile(name)

Returns true if name is a file.

Description

isfile is true only for regular files: folders and names that do not exist give false. Unlike exist, it does not look on the search path, only at the name given.

With a cell array or string array it tests every name and returns an array of the same size.

Input arguments

name: File name as text, a string array, or a cell array of names.

Output arguments

tf: Logical array with one entry per name.

Example

One name and several

writelines('data', 'a.txt');
isfile('a.txt')
isfile('nothere.txt')
isfile({'a.txt', '.', 'zzz'})

Output

ans = logical
   1
ans = logical
   0
ans = 1×3 logical array

   1   0   0

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