Loopfilereadr

Purpose

An example function for reading files in a loop from a directory.

Synopsis

out = loopfilereadr(mydir,extension)

Description

The output is a structure array containing one file per elemnt. The "reader" function is xclreadr. The input is a directory and optional file extension. This function is written to work for CSV files containing one row of "variable" labels and one column "sample" labels. It is meant as a template for writing custom file reading within a loop. See comments in the code below for examples of changing "readers" and output argument.

Example of file contents:

,columnLabel_1,columnLabel_2,columnLabel_3
rowLabel_1,1,2,3
rowLabel_2,4,5,6
rowLabel_3,7,8,9

Inputs

• mydir : directory (folder) to search, only searches single directory, no subdirectories.
• extension : file extension to specify (optional).

Outputs

• out : structure array with one dataset per element.

See Also

areadr, dataset, spcreadr, xclgetdata, xclputdata, xclreadr, xlsreadr