Make for loop and extract data from different tables within a structure.

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Jordan Blake
Jordan Blake 2020-10-4
编辑： Stephen23 2020-10-7
Could you help me cxtract data from different tables in loops?
Samples are separated into separate csv files with 4 columns of data. Each of the columns in a file has the same number of rows but the number of rows in different files differs.
clc;clear;
%% Call Samples
n=18; %Number of specimens/ samples
for i=1:n
n_strPadded = sprintf('%02d',i); %if files contain leading zeros (mine does)
fname = ['Sample' n_strPadded] %File name as string
temp_var = strcat('Sample',num2str(i)); %Trying to convert file name from a string to to a variable
Samples.(temp_var)=readtable(fname); %convert csv files into tables and import them.
end
% now each csv file (each sample data is located within a table within a
% structure. Sample1, Sample2,.... in structure Samples
%I want to extract data from the tables by indexing it like
%Samples(i).Sample(i) , where samplei is a table (from within the
%structure). Then the following steps could be completed once in a loop.
%I have tried to use some commands to call out a table without using the
%tables unique name (below). The only way I have been able
%to do this is Samples.Samplex.var (x= sample # and var is the variable or
%column name) or Samples.Samplex(m,n).
%{
for i=1:n
T1=Samples(i)
end
C=struct2cell(Samples)
x=C(1)
x=Samples(2).Sample(2,2)
%}
%% Stress Sample 2
Cross_sectionalArea=readtable('Cross_sectionalArea.csv');
StressSample2=Samples.Sample2.Force*(10^3) / Cross_sectionalArea.m(2);
%% Strain Sample 2
StrainSample2=Samples.Sample2.Strain1;
%% Plot Stress Strain Sample 2
plot(StrainSample2,StressSample2)

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Stephen23
Stephen23 2020-10-7
编辑：Stephen23 2020-10-7
You are confusing the field names with an index, but really you should just be using an index. Rather than awkward messing about with dynamic fieldnames in a scalar structure, you would be much better off using basic efficient indexing with a cell array:
n = 18;
c = cell(1,n);
for k = 1:n
fname = sprintf('Sample%02d',k);
c{k} = readtable(fname); % or READMATRIX
end
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/access-data-in-a-cell-array.html
Storing the imported data in a simple cell array is exactly what the MATLAB documentation recommends:
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/import_export/process-a-sequence-of-files.html

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Ayush Gupta
Ayush Gupta 2020-10-7
The excel files here can be read directly with the help of readmatrix function. Suppose there is an excel file of name abc.xlsx, the file can be read, and first column can be stored as follows
data = readmatrix('abc.xlsx');
dolumn1 = data(:,1)
To refer to examples on how to use readmatrix and examples on how to use it, refer here.
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Jordan Blake
Jordan Blake 2020-10-7
Thank you Ayush! The readmatrix is better for my purpose.
I do still have one issue though. At the end of the first For Loop I attemp to save each matrix as its own unique variable. So I will have 18 matrices after the loop. If I simply do what is below, I would overwrite each matrice and only have the final. If I use my code above, I end up with a structure and will again have issues calling on the elements later.
%% Call Samples
n=18; %Number of specimens/ samples
for i=1:n
n_strPadded = sprintf('%02d',i); %if files contain leading zeros (mine does)
fname = ['Sample' n_strPadded] %File name as string
%temp_var = strcat('Sample',num2str(i)); %Trying to convert file name from a string to to a variable
Sample_n=readmatrix(fname); %convert csv files into tables and import them.
end

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