How do I assign different variable names for different files?

Hi! I have 10 csv files (100*10 size) in one directory. I want read all the files and convert them to tables. I want to assign different variable name for each of the table. For example: data1= file1, data2=file2 and so on. How do I do that? I am a hard time creating dynamic variables like 'data1' in a loop to assign the file data to them. Any help will be much appreciated!

[Matt J]

Bad idea:

TUTORIAL: Why Variables Should Not Be Named Dynamically (eval)

Answer 1

[David Hill]

Something like this should work. It would be better to place all the files into a single matrix and use indexing.

for i=1:10
    a=sprintf('file%d.csv',i);
    eval(['data' num2str(i) '= readmatrix(a);']);
end

[Stephen23]

"It would be better to place all the files into a single matrix and use indexing."

Which is also exactly what the MATLAB documentation shows:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/import_export/process-a-sequence-of-files.html