Function xlsread - file function:

The function xlsread will read from the spreadsheet file. For illustration, to read from file just generated:

>> ssnums = xlsread('ranexcel')

ssnums =

   96   77   62

   24   46   80

   61   2   93

   49   83   74

   90   45   18

In both situations the .xls extension on the filename is the default, therefore it can be omitted.

These are shown in their fundamental forms, whenever the matrix or spreadsheet holds just numbers and the whole spreadsheet is read or matrix is written. There are lots of qualifiers which can be used for these functions, though. For illustration, the below would read from the spreadsheet file 'texttest.xls' which contains:

a 123 Cindy

b 333 Suzanne

c 432 David

d 987 Burt

>> [nums, txt] = xlsread('texttest.xls')

nums =

   123

   333

   432

   987

txt =

   'a'  ''  'Cindy'

   'b'  ''  'Suzanne'

   'c'  ''  'David'

   'd'  ''  'Burt