SPM12 debugging on Matlab

Question

I have a problem using SPM on Matlab. I have an m-file that I need to debug and I have not written. This code is old and probably the error is hopefully given by the difference in syntax of the newer versions. The error pops out using this function spm_get_files, originally present in the code. When changing this function to spm_get (I found that these two functions are supposedly equivalent) I get the following error:

Error using spm_get (line 1726)
Illegal Action string
Error in suj6 (line 46)
Fr3 = spm_get('/home/***/folder','a3*093.img');

where '/home/***/folder','a3*093.img' is the directory of the input files I want to analyze. These are fMRI scans.

My Matlab version is 9(R2016a) and the SPM is SPM12. (The code is old and was originally written in SPM99)

Anyone can help me out?

Thank you!

Answer 1

spm_get_files is basically just this one line of code:

varargout = {spm_get('Files',varargin{:})};

Clearly if you would like to switch back to using spm_get, you need to explicitly add 'Files' as the first argument.