How to sum columns of multiple matrices?

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I have 32 column matrices of different names to be added separately. Is it possible to write a loop to do it instead of writing Sum1 = sum(VarName2)... and so on for 32 matrices?
I have matrices named VarName2, VarName3, ..., VarName33. I tried using the following loop;
for i = 1:32
sum(i)= sum(VarName(i));
end
and it returned the error "Undefined function or variable 'VarName'". So, needed help with this.

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Niels
Niels on 3 Feb 2017
Edited: Niels on 3 Feb 2017
final_sum=0;
for i= 1:32 % splitted command as string: sum(VarNamei)
final_sum=final_sum + evalin('base', ['sum(VarName', num2str(i) ,')']);
end
the sum of all vectors (if sum is used on a matrix, the result will be a row vector) ...
just tell me if it works, i had no problem using it.
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Niels
Niels on 3 Feb 2017
chnged the code so that final_sum is a 32x1 vector where final_sum(i) contains the sum of VarName2+...VarNamei
final_sum = zeros(32,1);
final_sum(1) = VarName2;
for i= 3:33 % splitted command as string: sum(VarNamei)
final_sum(i-1) = final_sum(i-2) + evalin('base', ['sum(VarName', num2str(i) ,')']);
end

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