Midpoint between 2 numbers in 2 columns in the same csv file

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I'm working on a project where i need to find the midpoint between a minimum and maximum value to then plot a curve. i haver very limited experience in matlab and currently am having to use excel to calculate the midpoint between the 2 numbers as they are exported from software as 2 seperate csv files.
is there a way to either:
a) write the script to automatically find the midpoint between 2 numbers from 2 seperate csv files (they are the y-axis on a graph and the x-axis intervals stay the same)
or
b) the same as above but from 1 csv file?
obviously finding the point from the 2 seperate files will be easier but if needs be i can combine the 2, 2 column files in 1, 3 column file before improting to matlab.
any help would be greatly appreciated, as i said above this is slightly outside my knowledge of matlab, i am happy to provide an example of the csv files and what ive got my script to run so far

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Jon
Jon on 12 Dec 2022
Edited: Jon on 12 Dec 2022
% read in the data
dat1 = readmatrix("File1.csv");
dat2 = readmatrix("File2.csv");
% assume first column matches, and compute midpoints
mid = mean([dat1(:,2),dat2(:,2)],2) % compute mean of each row
mid = 4×1
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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 12 Dec 2022
Then
plot(dat1, 'r.-', 'LineWidth', 2);
grid on;
hold on;
plot(dat2, 'b.-', 'LineWidth', 2);
plot(mid, 'g.-', 'LineWidth', 2);
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Jon
Jon on 12 Dec 2022
@Image Analyst - thank you for the follow up regarding the OP's question about plotting, and the training suggestions. One small correction, since dat1 and dat2 also include the first column from the file, I think the plotting commands should be
plot(dat1(:,2), 'r.-', 'LineWidth', 2);
grid on;
hold on;
plot(dat2(:,2), 'b.-', 'LineWidth', 2);
plot(mid, 'g.-', 'LineWidth', 2);
or we could put all three curves into one array, and assuming the x axis is the same for all just grab it from one of the data arrays.
x = dat1(:,1);
Y = [dat1(:,2),dat2(:,2),mid];
plot(x,Y)
legend('File1','File2','Midpoint','Location','best')

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