matlab-load

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 like: S=load(file1) R=load(file2) etc. and then append the variables manually. But there's a ton of variables, and making an append statement for each one is extremely undesirable (though possible as a last resort). Is there some way for me to load .mat files to the workspace (by using the load() command without assignment) and have them append? Its not entirely clear what you mean by "append" but here's a way to get the data

Is there a quick way (i.e. one line) to dump a collection of variables "in" a structure, using the variable names as the structure fields? The "load" function basically does this but saving and loading to a temporary file seems ugly. For example: clear a = 'adsf' b = rand(10); x = var2struct(a,b) x.a x.b or better yet: x = var2struct(['a';'b']) Also, what about the reverse (i.e. dumping the field values to the current scope as variables named after the fields)?: clear x.a='asdf' x.b=rand(10); dumpstruct(x) a b Also, here's a related newsgroup thread . Aside from using LOAD and SAVE , there is