How can I open a document (Excel) from my Edit Box in Matlab GUI?

As statted in the title I dont know how to let matlab follow a hyperlink that is written in the edit box from my gui. Is there a special command except uigetdir and uigetfile?

% --- Executes on button press in pushbutton1.
function pushbutton1_Callback(~, ~, ~)
% hObject    handle to pushbutton1 (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)
% figure;
% t = 0:0.1:2*pi;
% x = cos(t); y = sin(t);
% plot(x, y, 'r');
% axis equal; 
%[v,~,~]=xlsread('Test für Azubi.xlsx');    %Auswahl der Datei 
v=edit1;
w=v(:,2); 
x=v(:,3); 
y=v(:,4); 
z=v(:,5);                                   %Zuordnung von den Columns zu variablen
plot(w);                                    %Darstellen von CellA
hold on;                                    %ermöglichen von vermehrter Darstellung von Werten auf y Achse
plot(x);                                    %Darstellen von Max_Li
plot(y);                                    %Darstellen von Max_Re
yyaxis right;                               %Rechte Achse mit Batterie Spannung
z=v(:,5);                                   %Vorgabe der Daten für rechte y Achse
plot(z);                                    %Darstellen von CellV
hold off




function edit1_Callback(~, ~, ~)
% hObject    handle to edit1 (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)

% Hints: get(hObject,'String') returns contents of edit1 as text
%        str2double(get(hObject,'String')) returns contents of edit1 as a double
edit1 = uigetdir;

Answer 1

[Rahul]

Hi @Black4Ghost,

To open a document from the edit field text in MATLAB GUI, consider using the function 'web'. Here is an example:

function ButtonPushed(app, event)
    url = app.edit1.Value;

    if ~isempty(url)
        % Opens the URL in the default web browser
        web(url, '-browser');
    end
end

The following MATLAB Answers can be referred:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/95499-how-do-i-launch-a-web-browser-or-an-html-file-through-matlab

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1845228-how-can-i-open-an-url-into-matlab-browser

The following MathWorks documentation cen be referred to know more:

'web': https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/web.html

Thanks.