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Change What To Do Instead In Version 7.7 (R2008b)
The File Filter options,
accessible from the
context menu and the
View menu, have been
removed.
Use the new filter field (use Preferences for the Current
Directory browser to show the filter field), or sort by file
type (click the document icon header), or group by file type
using the new grouping feature (available from the Actions
button).
The View menu was
removed.
Use the new filter field (previously described) to filter
the view. For Directory Reports, select Reports from the
Actions button on the toolbar.
When you look for items
in the current directory by
typing the initial letters
in the name, a pop-up
window no longer appears
showing the letters that
you typed.
As before, the first entry whose name begins with the letters
you typed is selected. If you want to see what you type when
finding items in the current directory, instead use the filter
field.
Structure Results of dir for Nonexistent Files Now Include Empty Matrices
When you run dir with an output argument and the results include a nonexistent file
or a file that dir cannot query for some other reason, dir now returns empty matrices
for the date, bytes, and datenum fields. The most common occurrence is on UNIX
platforms when dir queries a file that is a symbolic link and the symbolic link points to
a nonexistent target. A nonexistent target is when a target has been moved, removed, or
renamed. For example, if my_file in my_dir is a symbolic link to another file that has
been deleted, then running
r = dir('my_dir')
includes this result for my_file:
r(n) =
name: 'my_file'
date: ''
bytes: []
isdir: 0
datenum: []
where n is the index for my_file, found by searching r by the name field.