Append values in a new column

Hello all

The code below overwrites the previous values in the column Delay and inserts only the last ones (20). There should be a way to append the array instead of overwriting it but I dont know how. Any help will be appreciated

   if contains(baseFileName,"A01")
      x{k} = readtable(fullFileName,opts)
      bigtable = vertcat(x{:})
     bigtable(:,'Delay') = {10}
   elseif contains(baseFileName,"A02")
      x{k} = readtable(fullFileName,opts)
      bigtable = vertcat(x{:})
       bigtable(:,'Delay') = {20}
   end

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

If your tables have the same variable names (order does not matter), then just use square brackets.

newTable = readtable(fullFileName,opts)
bigtable = [bigtable;newTable];

[Ioannis Doumanis]

it does not work. The problem is that the values of the column delay are overwritten and not updated with the correct values. I want something like this:

when first condition is statisfied insert value 10 to column delay

When second condition is satisfiied insert value 20 to column Delay

At the moment the code simply inserts 20 in the column delay

[Ioannis Doumanis]

I modified the code but it works partially. Matlab inserts 0s in the rows where It should enter 10 or 20

if contains(baseFileName,"A01")

x{k} = readtable(fullFileName,opts)

bigtable = vertcat(x{:})

bigtable(1:6000,'Delay') = {10};

elseif contains(baseFileName,"A02")

x{k} = readtable(fullFileName,opts)

bigtable = vertcat(x{:})

bigtable(6000:12000,'Delay') = {20};

elseif contains(baseFileName,"A03")

x{k} = readtable(fullFileName,opts)

bigtable = vertcat(x{:})

bigtable(12000:18000,'Delay') = {30};

[Cris LaPierre]

I'm not sure I understand what your code is doing. Why do you assign the result of readtable to a cell array, but them vertically concatenate x?

The assignment to specific rows of a variable in a table is easy enough to do

bigtable.Delay(1:6000) = 10;

[Ioannis Doumanis]

I am reading a specific data sample (300 samples) from several csv files. I want the samples the one after the other. I tried bigtable.Delay(1:6000) = 10; and still does not work. The table is filled with 0s instead of 10s and 20s. Currently I get correctly only the result (30) of the last condition of sth switch statement.

[Cris LaPierre]

Consider sharing your data files. You can attach them using the paperclip icon.

Answer 2

[Ioannis Doumanis]

I also tried this. I still get 0s for the first two conditions. I am not sure why

delayvalues = [delayvalues; delay];

for k = 1 : length(theFiles)
   baseFileName = theFiles(k).name;
   fullFileName = fullfile(theFiles(k).folder, baseFileName);

% add column at the end of the table
switch true
    case (contains(baseFileName,"A01"))
       x{k} = readtable(fullFileName,opts)
        bigtable = vertcat(x{:})
        delay = 10;
        bigtable(1:6000,'Delay') = delayvalues(1);
      case  (contains(baseFileName,"A02"))
        x{k} = readtable(fullFileName,opts)
        bigtable = vertcat(x{:})
          delay = 20;
        bigtable(6000:12000,'Delay') = delayvalues(2);
    case (contains(baseFileName,"A03"))
        x{k} = readtable(fullFileName,opts)
        bigtable = vertcat(x{:})
          delay = 30;
        bigtable(12000:18000,'Delay') = delayvalues(3);
    
    otherwise

           % do nothing
end