Octave: Load all files from specific directory

Question

I used to have Matlab and loaded all txt-files from directory "C:\folder\" into Matlab with the following code:

myFolder = 'C:\folder\';
filepattern = fullfile(myFolder, '*.txt');
files = dir(filepattern);
for i=1:length(files)
eval(['load ' myFolder,files(i).name ' -ascii']);
end

If C:\folder\ contains A.txt, B.txt, C.txt, I would then have matrices A, B and C in the workspace.

The code doesn't work in octave, maybe because of "fullfile"?. Anyway, with the following code I get matrices with the names C__folder_A, C__folder_B, C__folder_C. However, I need matrices called A, B, C.

myFolder = 'C:\folder\';
files = dir(myFolder);
for i=3:length(files)
eval(['load ' myFolder,files(i).name ' -ascii']);
end

Can you help me? Thanks, Martin

PS: The loop starts with 3 because files(1).name = . and files(2).name = ..

EDIT: I have just found a solution. It's not elegant, but it works. I just add the path in which the files are with "addpath", then I don't have to give the full name of the directory in the loop.

myFolder = 'C:\folder\';
addpath(myFolder)
files = dir(myFolder);
for i=3:length(files)
eval(['load ' files(i).name ' -ascii']);
end

Solution

It's usually bad design if you load files to variables which name is generated dynamically and you should load them to a cell array instead but this should work:

files = glob('C:\folder\*.txt')
for i=1:numel(files)
  [~, name] = fileparts (files{i});
  eval(sprintf('%s = load("%s", "-ascii");', name, files{i}));
endfor