Hi Gary,
You can use the size function to get the number of lines in the current file after reading using dlmread. Using the number of lines, you can fill the corresponsing column. Though the rest of all the unfilled rows of a will remain 0.
Here is a sample code for the same:
a = zeros(1000, 10);
for i = 1:10
% Construct the filename (assuming files are named 'file1.txt', 'file2.txt', etc.)
filename = sprintf('file%d.txt', i);
data = dlmread(filename);
numLines = size(data, 1);
a(1:numLines, i) = data;
end
Note that dlmread is not recommended, you can use readmatrix directly by replacing dlmread in the above code.
Please refer to the following documentation to read more about these functions:
- sprintf: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/string.sprintf.html
- size: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/double.size.html
Hope this helps!
