Read Images by date created, not my name

Hello, is it possible in Matlab to read images by date created? I cant use foor loop as its hard to predict the images names.

For example, I have images with name:" F1_23.jpg,F1_51.jpg,F3_12.jpg". I have 4,450 images named like that, it is impossible to use 'for loops' as numbers not in ordered, but they are created in serial time one after another and I need to read them by the time they created in the folder. Can any of Matlab experts here can help?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

No. Use this instead:

dirinfo = dir('*.jpg');
[sortedtimes, sortorder] = sort([dirinfo.datenum]);
dirinfo = dirinfo(sortorder);

Then dirinfo will be the file information in increasing date modification order.

for K = 1 : length(dirinfo)
  thisfile = dirinfo(K).name;
  thisimage = imread(thisfile);
  ....
end

[KaMu]

Thank you Walter Roberson! Great job!