MPS to MATLAB format conversion?

I am using MATLAB to program Simplex methods. Now I'd like to test my code against some real-sized problems. Is there some sort of utility that will convert MPS files to .MAT format or at least some.m file that will read MPS?? Will I have to write it myself?

Answer 1

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/4565

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~borchers/readmps.html

http://tomopt.com/docs/xpress/tomlab_xpress012.php