I figured out a way to do this. It's very inelegant, but it definitely suffices:
for i=1:50 (just 50, say)
if i<10
x=['data00',num2str(i)];
else
x=['data0',num2str(i)];
end %if
data(:,2*i-1:2*i) = importdata(x);
!this stores all the data in a matrix, 2 columns of data at a time
end...