Change file extension from .dat to .csv

Hi there,

Please excuse if this is a naive question...I have searched the web all day with no joy. I have quite a large number of ASCII .dat files of mixed string and numeric data and I would like to change the file extension to .csv. Is there a simple way of doing this?

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

help movefile

help copyfile

or

!ren *.dat *.csv

[Walter Roberson]

The !ren option would at best work on Windows systems.

I also recommend the FAQ: http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ?cb=4562#How_can_I_process_a_sequence_of_files.3F

[bugguts99]

!ren *.dat *.csv works wonders. Thanks.