Automate function and text reading tasks in MATLAB

I need help automating some of my work:

I have several txt files I am using dlmread to bring into matlab, and then manipulate with functions.

Right now I am bringing in each file, and changing my function each time to account for added input.

Example abbreviated:

1) dlmread(file)

2) call the function ( file)

3) function [] = name[filea,fileb,filec]

body: combine/change a, b, c etc

It is tedious to manually add lines of code to step 1 for each file ( many files), and to change step 2 and the function for each new variable.

Is there a way to have matlab automatically take all txt files from a folder, for example, then read them into a function that accounts for the number of files?

I am new into deep programming in MATLAB. Any help would be appreciated.

[per isakson]

See How can I process a sequence of files?

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_process_a_sequence_of_files.3F

f='C:\Users\Documents\MATLAB'   % The folder where your files are located
d=dir(fullfile(f,'*.txt'))
file={d.name}
for k=1:numel(file)
  data{k}=dlmread(fullfile(f,file{k}))
end

[Philip Hoskinson]

Issues with {d.name} : "Invalid floating point constant"

'name' refers to what ever I want?