Read and taking selected lat-longs from few .loc files and plot in geoshow

I have 92 .loc files in the current folder. The volume of all the files is large. I need to read all the files one by one and select column 2 and 3 (lats and lons) in 30N to 90N latitudinal range. And place them in one .mat file. Therefore with that .mat file I can plot a geoshow map. How to do that?

[Mathieu NOE]

hello

your files can probably be read by the many available functions to read txt /ascii files

Text Files - MATLAB & Simulink - MathWorks France

what have you tried so far ? success ?

if you still need help please provide your code + at least one file (or extract of it) (use the paper clip)

[Chunru]

Is it possible to attach 2 .loc files?

[Joydeb Saha]

Even if I zipped, the size of the files exceeds 5 mb uploading limit of Matlab

[Chunru]

For each fie, you can cut it down to few lines.

[Joydeb Saha]

clear all

myFolder = 'U:\W\'; 
filePattern = fullfile(myFolder, '*.loc');  

Files = dir(filePattern);

for k =1:length(Files)
%     k=1
    baseFileName = Files(k).name;
    fullFileName = fullfile(myFolder, baseFileName);
    fprintf(1, 'Now reading %s\n', fullFileName);
    fid = fopen(fullFileName,'rt');
    
    
    a = textscan(fid, '%s %s %f %f %f %f %f', ...
        'Delimiter',',', 'CollectOutput',1);   
    
    
    M(:) = [a{2}];  
    
    M1=M(:,1:2);
    lat_idx=find(M1(:,1)>=30 & M1(:,1)<=90);

    WSC=M1(lat_idx,:);

    
end

I have done that much. I think it reads all the files, but giving the output for one file only. It should be somethink like : It will read first file, keep the first and second column and put the other file's first and second column in the same .mat file.