Loading multiple files

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Mar-2005, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

| I'd like to be able to read a large number of files into Octave at once where
| the filenames only differ slightly - file_001.txt, file_002.txt, etc. I've 
been
| using the following code:
| 
| --------
| for i=1:10
|   filename=strcat("file_",sprintf("%03d",i),".txt")
|   eval(["load ",filename]);
| endfor
| --------
| 
| to do this but it's obviously pretty slow due to the use of the eval command.
| Is there a better way to do this?

Yes:

  for i = 1:10
    load (sprintf ("file_%03d.txt", i));
  endfor

jwe



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