how to concatenate rows of different sizes over an array of the minimum size among these rows?

I want to concatenate 32 columns from different 32 files sequentially named. The code works fine if the the 32 files have similar size arrays(2500 in some of the sets); however, other sets of 32 files have one file of size 2909 or more. Now I need to consider all the concatenation to be over the first 2500 only. Please help in editing the code below (error message is below as well):

clear all size=2500; for i=1 : 32 filename=horzcat(pwd,'\Run4915_Inj',int2str(i),'.pre'); delimiter = {'\t',','}; startRow = 3; %% Format string for each line of text: formatSpec = '%f%f%f%*s%[^\n\r]';

%% Open the text file. fileID = fopen(filename,'r');

%% Read columns of data according to format string. dataArray = textscan(fileID, formatSpec, 'Delimiter', delimiter, 'HeaderLines' ,startRow-1, 'ReturnOnError', false);

%% Close the text file. fclose(fileID); %% Create output variable time(:,i)=dataArray{1:size, 1}; P(:,i)=dataArray{1:size, 2}; needle(:, i)=dataArray{1:size, 3}; Pav=mean(P,2); nav=mean(needle,2); tav=mean(time,2); %% Clear temporary variables clearvars filename delimiter startRow formatSpec fileID dataArray ans; end

I get this error as I run the code to the exceptional set:

Unable to perform assignment because the size of the left side is 2500-by-1 and the size of the right side is 2909-by-1.

[Bob Thompson]

First, calling a variable 'size' is a bad idea, because 'size' is a command in Matlab for calling the size of a variable. https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/size.html

Which line in your code is giving you the error?

[Samy Alkhayat]

I agree with you.

The lines giving me errors are:

time(1:size, i)=dataArray{1:size, 1};

P(1:size, i)=dataArray{1:size, 2};

needle(1:size, i)=dataArray{1:size, 3};

[Bob Thompson]

I would double check the size of each of those arrays, to make sure that you aren't accidently getting time, P, or needle to be 2909

[Samy Alkhayat]

Ok here is what the code does: It concatenates till the file no. 12/32 only because the file no 13 is of size longer than the previous 12.

So I get 500x12 for P and needle, 500x1 for Pav and needleav as the mean works only over 12 rathat than 32