How to import multiple txt files in different folders into workspace at one time?
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Hi, I have multiple txt files stored in several folders and the groups of txt files in the same folder has a similar pattern of file names. All the txt files need to be read starting from the 3rd row. How can I import all the txt files from the different folders at one time into MATLAB workspace and then assign them with different names in the workspace?
Many thanks,
a sincerely user
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Stephen23
on 19 Sep 2014
Do not create or use variable names dynamically like this. Use a cell array or structure instead:
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Mohammad Abouali
on 18 Sep 2014
have you tried "textread" command? It has a headerline parameter that tells how many line to ignore. You need to call that function for each file though.
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Mohammad Abouali
on 19 Sep 2014
I wouldn't name them differently. but you can use cell arrays something like this:
for i=1:nFiles
[A,B,C,...]=textread(....);
myData.A{i}=A;
myData.B{i}=B;
myData.C{i}=C;
end
Then you can access the values from different file easily or later you can combine them together.
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