Changing the names of huge amount of text files?

Hi, I have a folder containing 15,369 textfiles with names AP_pcp_016_080.txt etc..I want to change the name of the files to X016Y080 please help me.

[Sivakumaran Chandrasekaran]

textwrite command may help you

[Gokul Kanneganti]

how to change the names of 15,000 files at a time?

[Sivakumaran Chandrasekaran]

http://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1760-how-to-rename-a-bunch-of-files-in-a-folder

Answer 1

[Stalin Samuel]

files = dir('*.txt');
for id = 1:length(files)
    [~,old_name] = fileparts(files(id).name);
    digit_index = regexp(old_name,'\d') ;
    numbers = num2str(str2double(old_name(digit_index)));
    new_name = strcat('X0',numbers(1:2),'Y',numbers(3:5));
    movefile(strcat(old_name,'.txt'), sprintf('%s.txt', new_name));
end

[Stephen23]

@Stalin Samuel: please learn to indent and format your code properly to make it readable. You have answered enough questions on this forum to know that neat, correctly indented code is more readable and less buggy.

[Stalin Samuel]

ok