How do you load xyz files with a similar name but only differ by a number in its name into one manipulatble array?

I am trying to load .xyz files into Matlab into a single array, so I can write a code that references the different parts of the array. For example, I have 20 different profiles that contain topography data and the coordinates. I want to be able to call any profile at anytime.

The naming system goes like this:

prof1oc.xyz

prof2oc.xyz ...

I want to know how to import them all at the same time. I believe it uses *, but I'm not sure how to write it. Here's an attempt..

%%
numfiles=20;
TopoFiles = dir('*.xyz'); 
numfiles = length(TopoFiles);
mydata = cell(1, numfiles);

%Creating an array that contains all of the data for each profile
for k = 1:numfiles 
  profiles{k} = importdata (TopoFiles(k).name); 
end

Answer 1

[Pranjal Priyadarshi]

We can read the list of files using the “dir” command to read the files in the given directory[should be present in the path ] and use “importdata “ command to fetch relevant data from the files list. The following code should do the job for you:

a=dir('p*.txt'); %Used for importing the files list
nooffiles= numel(a);
dataAllFiles={};
for num = 1:nooffiles
    dataOfAllFiles(num)=importdata(a(num).name,' '); %importdata used to read the content of the file
end
for n = 1:num
    disp(dataOfAllFiles{n});     %printing out the data present in the cell array [Also the data content of the files].
end