Open files with for loop with character as title

Hi,

I have a bunch of files to open and they are classed by month. Usually I would use a for loop and num2str to convert numbered month to string to read them, however the months are written in characters (AUGUST, MAY, etc)

Anyone knows how to solve this issue without changing the name of the files one by one?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

[Jan]

MonthName = {'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', ...
       'Jule', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'};
for year = 2000:2010
  for month = 1:12
    disp(sprintf('%04d%s', year, MonthName{month}))
  end
end

[bym]

I don't believe you have any problems with keyboard latency ;)

[Jan]

@proecsm: I gave up after sending so many mails and after so many discussions here in the last 6 month. I've solved the problems of the hilarious inefficient screen updates by buying a more powerful computer and Windows 7. Now the latency disappeared, but I'm quite disappointed, because I know that the auto-preview still wastes a lot of energy, although I do not feel it anymore.

See: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/5560-do-you-suffer-from-keyboard-latency-in-this-forum

[Wei]

Thank you! it worked!!

Answer 2

[bym]

something like this?

fileInfo = dir('*.csv');    % csv files in directory
numFile = length(fileInfo);

rawData = cell(1,numFile);
for i = 1:numFile

      fid = fopen(fileInfo(i).name);
      rawData{i} = textscan(fid,'%*s%*s%*s%s%*s%f','delimiter',',');
      fclose(fid);

end

[Wei]

Hi, my fid is very very very long, so I think the previous one is more suitable.

Thank you still!