I like to import a string with multiple pathnames

Hello,

I have a string with multiple substrings. Each of the substrings is a pathname. How can I use importdata or textscan to import these substrings in seperate tables?

[KSSV]

You have those strings in a text file? Why don't you show the sample of text file?

[Erik Verdijk]

I tried this

[FileName,PathName] = uigetfile('../*.txt','MultiSelect','on','choose','the path');

numfiles = length(FileName); c = char (FileName);

string2=strcat(PathName,c);
for ii = 1:numfiles;
% it work until here
a{ii} = importdata(string2); 
end

Answer 1

[KSSV]

Try this:

[FileName,PathName] = uigetfile('../*.txt','MultiSelect','on','choose','the path');

numfiles = length(FileName);

a = cell(numfiles,1) ;
for ii = 1:numfiles
    c = char (FileName{ii});

      string2=strcat(PathName,c);
      a{ii} = importdata(string2);
  end

[Stephen23]

Do not use strcat for filenames/paths! Always use fullfile.

Also that char does nothing.

[Erik Verdijk]

I become

Answer 2

[Stephen23]

uigetfile does not return strings, it returns a cell array of char vectors. Iterating over a cell array is easy, so just do that. Also use fullfile rather than concatenating strings using strcat (or anything else).

[fnm,pnm] = uigetfile('../*.txt','MultiSelect','on','choose','the path');
C = cell(1,numel(fnm));
for k = 1:numel(fnm)
    C{K} = importdata(fullfile(pnm,fnm{k}));
end

[Erik Verdijk]

Is it possible that I get this as result? I have to say that the file I want to import is rather complicated. It has headerlines and variable names. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

[Stephen23]

"Is it possible that I get this as result?"

Of course it is possible. Read the importdata help to know what it returns: the structure and its fieldnames are clearly explained there. Note that you could easily convert the cell array of scalar structures to a more convenient non-scalar structure:

S = [C{:}];
S(1).data
S(1).colheaders
...
S(2).data
...