how to read data from multiple files and save in single file

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i have 5000 text files each file having(1*50). i need to read those all files from top to bottom order and want to save them in single text file.which should contain all data from those 5000 files(5000*50).

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Jan
Jan on 7 Aug 2013
Edited: Jan on 7 Aug 2013
This concatenates the files directly without a conversion to doubles and back again:
pathName = 'C:\Temp';
fileList = dir(fullfile(pathName, '*.txt'));
out = fopen(fullfile(pathName, 'Joined.txt'), 'w');
for k = 1:numel(fileList)
s = fileread(fullfile(pathName, fileList(k).name));
fwrite(out, s, 'char');
end
fclose(out);
Perhaps it is needed to care about a trailing line break:
if s(end) =~ char(10) && s(end-1:end) ~= char([13, 10])
fwrite(out, char(10), 'char'); % Or char([13,10]) ?
end
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Angana Borah
Angana Borah on 19 Sep 2019
Thank you so much. can anyone please tell me how I can understand each line in the code? what 'w'w does and what is the purpose of the for loop logic?

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David Sanchez
David Sanchez on 7 Aug 2013
my_files = dir('*.txt');
N_files = numel( my_files );
A = zeros( numel(my_files),50 ); % initialize matrix to hold data
for k = 1:N_files
file2read = my_files(k).name;
fid = fopen(file2read);
A(k,:) = fscanf(fid, '%g', [1 inf]); % data from file
fclose(fid);
end
% write data to new file
fid = fopen('new_file.txt', 'w');
fprintf(fid, '%g %g\n', A);
fclose(fid);

KRUNAL
KRUNAL on 24 Jul 2014
Edited: KRUNAL on 24 Jul 2014
I am trying to do the same as sandy wants to. I am trying to read excel files from two different folders and output it to an excel file present in third folder. Can anyone suggest how can it be done?
P.S : I am reading only a column of data from the two files and not the entire file

hemant vyas
hemant vyas on 23 Jun 2018
sir can we read and write in a video file simultaneously if I am recording video by webcam a saving it in .m file than in the same code i want to process it in matlab2013a

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