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From: "Bob Gilmore" <bgilmore@mathworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Does anyone else wish Matlab could handle Open Documents?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:48:54 -0400
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"Diederick Niehorster" <none@none.com> wrote in message 
news:fg9mme$so6$1@fred.mathworks.com...
> "Darren " <darrenb@NOSPAM.udel.edu> wrote in message
> <f75gcn$6h$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
>> I personally see this as a severe hindrance to Matlab.
> It works great on Linux and MacOS but can only read and
> write Excel spreadsheets, and that rarely works properly
> without ActiveX.
>>
>> Has anyone developed code to handle (read and write) Open
> Document Spreadsheets?  If not, Mathworks needs to get off
> their butts and get with the times.
>>
>> Let me know what you guys think.
>>
>> Darren
>>
> Hey Darren,
>
> On that excel note, you can just write tab-delimited data
> in a plain text file and give it the extention .xls. Works
> great ;)

If you move to writing tab-delimited data, there's no reason to manipulate 
the extension, either.

You can use DLMREAD or IMPORTDATA to read the file easily, or TEXTSCAN or 
TEXTREAD to have finer control over the process.
--
Bob Gilmore, The MathWorks, Inc.