Using the outerjoin to join more than 2 tables

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I want to join multiple tables together to make one table. I've used the outerjoin function to join 2 tables together(shown below). Is there anyway to join more than 2 tables using the outerjoin function.
c = outerjoin(data{1,1},data{1,3},'Keys','time','MergeKeys',true);
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Jan
Jan on 30 Jan 2018
No, you did not use the outerjoin function, but the join function.
Mark Rodger
Mark Rodger on 30 Jan 2018
Yeah, meant to say join instead of outerjoin

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Jan
Jan on 30 Jan 2018
Edited: Jan on 8 Jun 2018
You can nest the joining:
outerjoin(A, outerjoin(B, C))
[EDITED] With a loop:
function Joined = MultiOuterJoin(varargin)
Joined = varargin{1};
for k = 2:nargin
Joined = outerjoin(Joined, varargin{k});
end
end
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Jan
Jan on 8 Jun 2018
Edited: Jan on 8 Jun 2018
@Nick George: No, I'm not joking. All I did was to show, that it is easy to call outerjoin multiple times. If this is done recursively of by a loop does not matter, because the point is the iterative joining.
See EDITED.
Devin kIM
Devin kIM on 9 Nov 2020
I gotta agree with Nick on this one... This can be done in virtually all analysis languages, why is joining multiple tables not available in 2020b? Seems like something that should have been available a long time ago instead of adding more flashy features...

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