Reading Multiple script files containing numbers and text, file format is not any specific format

I have 365 files each day one file so the data is of one year. File is not of any fixed format like .dat or .xls or any other fixed format.

I can import it using import option one by one, But i would like to import or read them at one go all together in a loop which is creating a problem.

Each file contains six columns, separated with a space between them as shown below

473342400 17.41726119594118 78.55087294003569 441.657340252 0.0350254898955 HYDE

473342430 17.4172611595746 78.55087293204093 441.678895976 0.0350153127795 HYDE

473342460 17.417261172776456 78.55087291512065 441.682120113 0.0350026635609 HYDE

473342490 17.417261181614183 78.55087288613484 441.675300984 0.0349871066611 HYDE

473342520 17.417261194465333 78.55087289974891 441.676861182 0.0349686525377 HYDE

I want to read these files at one go.

Please help me.

Answer 1

[meghannmarie]

If you have 2014a then you dont have the datastore function, you should upgrade to a newer version if you can. Otherwise, here is how todo it in a loop:

Folder   = 'D:\files';  % Your folder with data files
FileList = dir(fullfile(Folder, '*'));
FileList(ismember({FileList.name}, {'.', '..'})) = [];  % Remove . and ..  

%% Setup the Import Options
opts = delimitedTextImportOptions("NumVariables", 6);

% Specify range and delimiter
opts.DataLines = [1, Inf];
opts.Delimiter = " ";

% Specify column names and types
opts.VariableNames = ["Var1", "Var2", "Var3", "Var4", "Var5", "Var6"];
opts.VariableTypes = ["double", "double", "double", "double", "double", "char"];
opts = setvaropts(opts, 6, "EmptyFieldRule", "auto");
opts.ExtraColumnsRule = "ignore";
opts.EmptyLineRule = "read";
opts.ConsecutiveDelimitersRule = "join";
opts.LeadingDelimitersRule = "ignore";

data = [];

for f = 1:numel(FileList)
file = fullfile(FileList(f).folder,FileList(f).name);
data = cat(1,data,readtable(file, opts));
end

Answer 2

[meghannmarie]

Have you tried a datastore?

folder = 'D:\files'; %this is folder where the data files are
ds = datastore(folder);
data = readall(ds);

[Mohammed Yousuf]

It is showing error

Undefined function 'datastore' for input arguments of type 'char'.

and readall is not to be seen in my help readall

[meghannmarie]

What version of MATLAB do you have? You need at least R2014b.

[Mohammed Yousuf]

I have 2014a version