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Contents

Index

• Getting Started

• User's Guide

• Desktop Tools and Development Environment

• Data Import and Export

• File Opening, Loading, and Saving

• Spreadsheets

• Low-Level File I/O

• Scientific Data

• Audio and Video

• XML Documents

• Memory Mapping

• File Name Construction

• File Compression

• Internet File Access

• Mathematics

• Data Analysis

• Programming and Data Types

• Object-Oriented Programming

• 3-D Visualization

• GUI Development

• External Interfaces

• Release Notes

uiimport - Open Import Wizard to import data

Syntax

uiimport uiimport(filename) uiimport('-file') uiimport('-pastespecial') S = uiimport(...)

Description

uiimport starts the Import Wizard in the current directory, presenting options to load data from a file or the clipboard.

uiimport(filename) starts the Import Wizard, opening the file specified in filename. The Import Wizard displays a preview of the data in the file.

uiimport('-file') works as above but presents the file selection dialog first.

uiimport('-pastespecial') works as above but presents the clipboard contents first.

S = uiimport(...) works as above with resulting variables stored as fields in the struct S.

Note For ASCII data, you must verify that the Import Wizard correctly identified the column delimiter.

See Also

clipboard | importdata | load

How To

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