Loading multiple datafile of different sizes

I have 30 measurement files that I would like to work with which are time dependent and not of equal length. I was wondering what the best way to load these in to plot them without dealing with each one individually. The 30 files are over a 6 day period and I want to plot them by day so they will not all be on one graph.

I started with a loop, but ran into trouble since the lengths of the files are not equal.

%%Load files
for I = 0:29
    filename = sprintf('Tension&CBResistance_%i.lvm',I)
    TCB(I+1,:,:) = load(filename);
end

If possible, I also rather not declare some huge 3D matrix just to pad the ends of data arrays with zeros or NaN.

Thanks:)

Answer 1

[Oleg Komarov]

Store them in a cell array or in a structure, if you can't concatenate.

for I = 0:29
    filename = sprintf('Tension&CBResistance_%i.lvm',I)
    TCB{I} = $load(filename);

    TCB.(filename) = load(filename);
end

[Jason Smoker]

I'm not sure I understood all the code you introduced, but this seems to work for loading the files.

for I = 0:29

filename = sprintf('Tension&CBResistance_%i.lvm',I)

TCB{I+1} = load(filename);

end

Now my question becomes how to plot them all without listing each one.

If they were arrays, I could would do

plot(TCB(1:6,:,1), TCB(1:6,:,2))

but this doesn't seem to work for cells. I tried

plot(TCB{1:6}(:,1),TCB{1:6}(:,2))

but get a "??? Bad cell reference operation." error