Batch processing using loops

I'm trying to analyze multiple .mat files that only differ in the name of each file. I essentially want to run each file under the same code, but I don't want to laboriously change the name of the loaded file. Is there syntax that I could put in the front and end of my code so I can loop the script to run for all the files in a given directory. The .mat files only differ by a sequence of numbers within the name, so could I input some sort of string beforehand, so all matlab has to do is open files based on a prewritten string. I don't know if that made sense, I'm new to this program....Thanks for your patience.

This is an example of what I'm trying to do: The data vector are the numbers that vary from file to file. All I want to do is take these numbers, put them into a file name and load that file. Is this possible?

data = [110535, 112212, 113327, 114252, 115310, 120216, 121047, 121837, 123235, 124703, 125857, 131222,132322, 133328, 134052, 135138, 140132, 141120, 142016, 143316, 144304, 145623];

for k = data(1,i) kalmanized_data = sprintf('DATA20140218_%d.kalmanized.h5-short-only.mat', k); load (kalmanized_data); CODE end

Any help is appreciated!

Thank you!

Answer 1

[Salaheddin Hosseinzadeh]

Tyee this is absolutely possible. I actually did this before, but the files I want to load had some sort of familiar names and the had a different number at the end of the file name which showed the error probability of the file, so it was much easier for me to load them all using a simple loop. If your files have no such order or criteria in their names then you have to make a vector in your case 'data' and then do the rest automatically.

for x=1:14
    Burst=ones(1,5);
    Burst(3)=0.004+(x-1)*.001;
    a=load(['D:\DVB-T- BurstChan Test\SEQ\Err_Seq',num2str(Burst(3)),'.mat'])

This is a part of that code, Name of my files where used to be 'Err_Seq_0.004.mat','Err_Seq_0.005.mat','Err_Seq_0.006.mat' and so on. This was how I used to load every single file. You don't need to use sprintf and make it so complicated! I'm sure the path for the files are the same, so you can make a string simply by concatenating strings together and when ever you have a digit or number, use num2str() and simply concatenate it with the rest of the string just as I did in the above example. Good Luck!