read files in yyyymmddhhmm format

Hi,
I have a bunch of files named in yyyymmddhhmm format. For example: 201111010000.txt 201111010300.txt 201111011000.txt 201111011300.txt ... and so on. I want to loop through each file to get the data. Could someone help?
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 23 Aug 2017
Edited: Stephen23 on 23 Aug 2017
Luckily you used the best date format in the world: one of the main benefits of using ISO 8601 is that the dates automatically sort into chronological order. This makes code much simpler and more efficient.

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files = dir('*.txt') ; % you are in the folder of text files
N = length(files) ; % total number of files
for i = 1:N % loop for each file
thisfile = files(i).name ;
%%load the data
% Store if you want or calculate
end

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