How to add .txt files from directory to a cell array

Hey guys,

How do I load every file in the directory in numerical/alphabetical order to a cell array?

prompt = 'Select your files to load';
filedir=uigetdir('Y:\ProgramFiles\Data\')

From here, I have a directory selected, how would I load every file in there into a cell array?

I plan on using the cell array in a loop, where each file name would be loaded in order and run through another script as part of a function

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/10959-sort_nat-natural-order-sort

dinfo = dir( fullfile(filedir, '*.txt'));
filenames = {dinfo.name};   %no directory information
filenames = nat_sort(filenames);       %from file exchange
fullnames = fullfile(filedir, filenames);
numfiles = length(fullnames);
results = cell(numfiles, 1);

for K = 1 : numfiles
    thisfile = filenames{K};
    now load file designated by thisfile and process it
    results{K} = output for this file
end