Automatically create matrix names

I'm using dir and dlmread to bring in files:

I want a loop that automatically creates matrixes on it's own, and assigns that data from my files to them.

example:

% 'a' is a struct array with file names, 'f' is folder location

      for i = 1:numel(a)

         (???) = dlmread(fullfile(f,a{i}),'',4,1)

     end

Ex. Output

    matrix1 = [data from file 1]
    matrix2 = [data from file 2]
    matrix3 = .....

In general is there a way to create matrixes, variable names etc. automatically using some type of command?...

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

for i = 1:numel(a)
       out{k}=dlmread(fullfile(f,a{i}),'',4,1)
end

[Philip Hoskinson]

This creates one matrix - I actually need new matrixs to be generated automatically, and be able to sort through them.....

Start with nothing, run function that creates - say twenty matrixes automatically...

[John D'Errico]

And you can trivially sort through a cell array of matrices! In fact, it is easier to work with a cell array of matrices than with a whole slew of differently named matrices.

Or if they are all the same size, then make a 3-dimensional matrix. That will be even easier to work with.

So the answer is, DON'T DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO!