I understand that you want to find euclidean distance between xy coordinates contained in different files.
Following is one way in which it can be done:
- Use the Import Tool in MATLAB to import the data into MATLAB workspace, say as a Matrices. Thus importing first file would result in a variable "data1" and second file would result in "data2".
- Assuming the files are of nx2 dimension (containing x coordinate as 1st column and y coordinate as 2nd column), the variables will also be nx2.
- Find the difference vector between the two variables.
- Use (dot-exponent) operator to raise it to required power.
- Use the 'sum' function along 2nd dimension and then 'sqrt' function to get the euclidean distance.
In code it can be done in a single line for two files and can be applied to multiple files using a loop:
>> dist = sqrt(sum((data1-data2).^2),2))
Hope this helps!
