Input a range of numbers with strings as well

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Here is what I use right now:
m = input('Number? ');
for ind = length(m):-1:1
filename = ['Data#' num2str(m(ind)) '.txt'];
Output Data{ind}= importfile(filename);
end
And this serves my purpose to input a range of numbers like [1:5] or [2,6,3,5]. But now I would like to be able to also use strings in the input along with the range such as [1:3,2R, 4 Word, 10] in order to input these text files: Data#1.txt, Data#2.txt, Data#3.txt, Data#2R.txt, Data#4 Word.txt, and Data#10.txt I know that cells allow me to have mixed arrays but I cannot figure out away to allow the input of 1:3 to be {1, 2, 3}. Can anyone help me achieve what I am trying to do?

Accepted Answer

Matt J
Matt J on 9 Oct 2015
You could use myParser below to get the relevant inputs in string form. For example
>> m=myParser('1:3 2R 4 Word 10')
m =
'1' '2' '3' '2R' '4' 'Word' '10'
and now you can do things like
filename = ['Data#' m{i} '.txt'];
simlar to what you had before.
function m=myParser(str)
C=textscan(str,'%s');
C=C{1};
for i=1:length(C)
c=str2num(C{i});
if ~isempty(c)
C{i}=num2cell(c);
end
end
m=[C{:}];
for i=1:length(m)
if isnumeric(m{i})
m{i}=num2str(m{i});
end
end
end

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