I have an excel document with a word in each cell in a column. I have to enter each cells contents into a search engine on a website and document if a certain result is returned. How can I do this with matlab?

I am trying to use urlread() and urlwrite() but I have not used Matlab in some time and am a bit rusty. Any advice is greatly appreciated because I have over 1000 cells to do this for. Thanks.

[John D'Errico]

Advice? Start writing! Take small steps. Figure out how to solve each small problem, then put it all together.

[per isakson]

See Trendy Tutorial

[Cedric]

A few hints:

• doc xlsread
• doc urlread
• urlfilter mentioned by Per
• doc regexp if urlfilter not suitable
• doc sprintf

Also, when I look up for "Hello World" in e.g. Bing, the URL becomes

 http://www.bing.com/search?q=hello+world&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=hello+world&sc=8-0&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=0bb761bc955944d992693026731aa996

after I click on search. Interestingly, when I copy-paste the first part

 http://www.bing.com/search?q=hello+world

in the address bar of my browser, it works too, and I can find words which appear on the page in the source code of the page..