Matlab path names with spaces... work around?

Question

I have many folder names with spaces in it, ie "red dog" --> "c:\red dog\"

files = dir
str = ['cd ', files(3).name]
eval(str)

The execution returns the error do to the space:

>> eval(str)
Error using cd
Too many input arguments.

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What is the work around?... thx

Answer 1

Do you have a reason for using eval? Try just

cd(files(3).name);

Answer 2

Try using cd(files(3).name) instead of cd files(3).name (this is, call the cd function using brackets).

If for some reason you want to use cd as a command and not as a function (cd myPath instead of cd(myPath)), you have to enclose the string in single quotation marks. This way your example would look like this:

str = ['cd ''', files(3).name '''']
eval(str)