How can we read specific rows from an excel file in matlab?

Hi all,

I'm sure this question has been floating around for a while. I haven't found a satisfactory answer yet to my specific concern. So, I have a master excel file of data (both string and numeric values) that needs to be divided into many excel files based on the category (say: delta, beta, alpha etc) which is in a certain column.

A way to do this could be that these values are at certain specific rows. Delta values are at row 5,10,15,20,25....Same with the others. Any way I can read the file into a matrix and seperate out delta values into a file and alpha into another and so on?

Satya

Answer 1

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Read about readtable.

T = readtable(filename) ; 

YOu can access the columns using T.(1), T.(2) or T.(alpha), T.(beta), etc.

Also you can use xlsread but this has become of old.

[num,txt,raw] = xlsread(filename) ; 

num is your matrix data.