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Ahmed
Ahmed on 9 Jan 2015
Commented: Ahmed on 21 Jan 2015
I have more than 600 tables each one has a different data. I want To put all the data in the same table (one table). I wonder how can I do that in Matlab. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will be grateful to you.
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Guillaume
Guillaume on 9 Jan 2015
Are your tables actual matlab tables or just plain text files?
Your naming does not appear to be very consistent. I would have expected the first table to be named either table1 or table001. How is the 10th table named? table010 or table10?
You've not answered whether or not the tables all have the same columns
Ahmed
Ahmed on 9 Jan 2015
The Table is plain text files. It has the same columns. The first table named table01…..tabe10…table11….table600

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Guillaume
Guillaume on 9 Jan 2015
Edited: Guillaume on 9 Jan 2015
A simple code (which does not preserve completely the table header):
tabledir = 'C:\wherever\the\files\are\on your\drive';
tablecount = 600; %how however many there are
tableout = 'alltables.txt' %or however you want to name it
tables = cell(tablecount, 1);
%read tables one by one into cell array
for tableidx = 1:tablecount
tablefile = sprintf('table%02d.txt', tableidx);
if ~exist(fullfile(tabledir, tablefile), 'file')
warning('skipping table %s. file does not exist', tablefile);
else
tables{tableidx} = readtable(fullfile(tabledir, tablefile)); %read table
end
end
alltables = vertcat(tables{:}); %concatenate all tables
writetable(alltables, fullfile(tabledir, tableout));
Note, that I've not tested nor debugged it, there may be some small typos, syntax errors.
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Ahmed
Ahmed on 21 Jan 2015
Thank you so much Guillaume. I did some modification on it and it is work well.

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