How to make a simple plot (loading many files)?

hardikisharma2 · Sep 11, 2020 · 1.9K views
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I have a series of data files (*.dat). They each contain two columns of data (magnitude and time). I need to load in all of these files into Matlab, then plot magnitude vs time for all of these files, in one single plot
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Answered Aug 17, 2026
f=struct2cell(dir('yourfolder/*.dat'));
name=f(1,:)
figure;
hold on
for k=1:numel(name)
v=dlmread(name{k});
plot(v(:,1),v(:,2))
end
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