The problem here stems from the filenames being in alphabetical order. If you separate the numbers from the ".txt" suffix with StringSplit, you ...
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dateOrdered = ((names = FileNames["*.dat"])[[Ordering[ FileDate[#, "Modification" ] & /@ names]]]); data = Import[#, "Table"] & /@ dateOrdered;.
Import[source] imports data from source, returning a Wolfram Language representation of it. Import[source, " format"] takes the file to be in the specified format.
The problem, very likely, is that the files are not random but sorted by string name . For example: Sort@Table[ StringTemplate["``.jpg"]@k , {k, 30} ] (* {"10.jpg", ...
a sequence of numbers separated by tabs or spaces, then Import["file","Table"] ...
format, let's give it a whirl (using big-endian UTF-16 with a byte-order- mark):
Import and Export support a variety of Western character encodings and the Unicode standard. UTF (Unicode Transformation Format) and UCS ...
FileConvert can be used to convert between compatible formats supported by Import and Export. Convert a WAV file to MP3 in order to reduce the file size.
elevation data (.dem). "CDF" — Wolfram Computable Document Format (.cdf)