Load Multiple .mat Files to Matlab workspace

Question

I\'m trying to load several .mat files to the workspace. However, they seem to overwrite each other. Instead, I want them to append. I am aware that I can do something li

Answer 1

Clark's answer and function actually solved my situation perfectly... I just added the following bit of code to make it a little less tedious. Just add this to the beginning and get rid of the "files" argument:

[files,pathname] = uigetfile('*.mat', 'Select MAT files (use CTRL/COMM or SHIFT)', ...
   'MultiSelect', 'on'); 

Alternatively, it could be even more efficient to just start with this bit:

[pathname] = uigetdir('C:\');
files = dir( fullfile(pathname,'*.mat') );   %# list all *.mat files
files = {files.name}';                       %# file names

data = cell(numel(files),1);                 %# store file contents
for i=1:numel(files)
    fname = fullfile(pathname,files{i});     %# full path to file
    data{i} = load(fname);                   %# load file
end

(modified from process a list of files with a specific extension name in matlab).

Thanks, Jason