Loading multiple files into cell array

Question

Suppose we have directory containing structured data files (text files containing matrix of numbers only).

Is it possible to load them all, no matter what filename they have, into cell array of matrices?

Shai · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-09 17:18:32Z

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use dir to get all the files in a directory:

fls = dir( fullfile( myFolder, '*.txt' ) );
n = numel(fls);
data = cell(1,n); % preallocate
fot ii=1:n
    data{ii} = dlmread( fullfile( myFolder, fls(ii).name ) ); % read the file using importdata/dlmread/load - whatever works for you
end

answered Jan 9, 2014 at 17:18

Shai

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Crowley Over a year ago

Thanks a lot, this saves a lot of time. When loading form same directory, use myFolder='.';

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