How to create character arrays via a loop?

I have a list of files in a folder that I access through the "dir" command. Then I use:

gg=cellstr(char({files(1:end).name}));
for i = 1:length(files)
   name{i}=gg{i}(1:13);
end

This gives me a cell array with each of the file names of datasets as shown below:

I want to append the word "Sensor 1, Sensor 2, Sensor 3,...,Sensor 38" to each of these file names. So, that I get a cell array that looks like this:

2012-01-30 00 Sensor 1

2012-01-30 00 Sensor 2

.........

2012-01-30 01 Sensor 1

........

2012-01-30 23 Sensor 1

and so on.

How do i do this?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

cellstr(reshape((string(name) + " Sensor " + (1:38)).', [], 1))

[maruljay]

Worked like a charm. Thanks a bunch!!!

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Try this:

d = dir('*.m');
fileNames = {d.name}
name  = cell(length(fileNames), 1);
name2 = cell(length(fileNames), 1);
for k = 1 : length(fileNames)
	thisFileName = fileNames{k};
	lastIndex = min([13, length(thisFileName)]);
	name{k} = thisFileName(1:lastIndex);
	% Make a new array with Sensor k appended.
        % If you wanted to, you could overwrite the name cell array instead.
	name2{k} = sprintf('%s Sensor %d', name{k}, k)
end