Convert txt files in csv/xlsx files

Hello,

I have a couple hundreds of txt files, where a number is written in each row. I want to convert all these hundreds of txt files into csv/xlsx files having the same name as the txt file. For ex: I have txt files as 1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt......so on. I want to convert these text files into csv/xlsx files as 1.csv, 2.csv, 3.csv....so on.

Can someone help me with a code snippet or a link to a post showing to automate this function in MATLAB? Thanks.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

dinfo = dir('*.txt');
filenames = {dinfo.name};
nfiles = length(filenames);

for K = 1 : nfiles
    thisfile = filenames{K};
    [~, basename, ~] = fileparts(thisfile);
    newname = basename + ".xlsx";
    data = readmatrix(thisfile);
    writematrix(data, newname);
end

This code assumes that you do not have any header in the file -- if you have a variable name for each column then switch to readtable() and writetable()

This code assumes that all of the columns are the same type -- if not, then switch to readtable() and writetable(), possibly with 'writevariablenames', false if there should not be a header line.

This code assumes that the .txt file format is something that readmatrix() can guess at.