MATLAB: Script will not run on windows 2016ML, but does on mac 2017ML

load

cd = 'D:\Batch_load'
%%load all data files
files= dir ('*.txt'); 
for i=1:length(files)
      eval(['load ' files(i).name ' -ascii']);
end
Error using load
Unknown text on line number 1 of ASCII file ._WG_10_clean.txt
"".
Error in batch_load (line 9)
      eval(['load ' files(i).name ' -ascii']);

There are 54 text files that all have identical formats. File 10 is no different.

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Check for UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding in the file when the successful ones do not have it.

... and don't use eval()

data{i} = load( files(i).name, '-ascii' );

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/304528-tutorial-why-variables-should-not-be-named-dynamically-eval

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