sbashford/excelMatl​ab

This provides a simple interface for reading/writing Microsoft Excel files from MATLAB.

Why not just use xlswrite()?
When called more than ~3 times, xlswrite() is an expensive function in terms of time. excelMatlab provides a simple, optimized approach to writing Excel files when multiple calls are needed. Moreover, xlswrite() requires a string (such as 'A1:B3') representing the range of cells to write. Programmatically this is inconvenient. excelMatlab requests the row and column number of the upper left cell from which to write.

Examples

Open file called fileName and write random matrix to sheet called sheetName. The matrix will be anchored to its top left corner, specified by row 1 and column 5 (cell E1).

fullPathToFile = [pwd(), filesep(), 'fileName'];
myExcel = ExcelMatlab(fullPathToFile, 'w');
data = rand(20);
sheet = 'sheetName';
row = 1;
col = 5;
myExcel.writeToSheet(data, sheet, row, col);
Open file called fileName and read cell G8 from sheet called sheetName.

fullPathToFile = [pwd(), filesep(), 'fileName'];
myExcel = ExcelMatlab(fullPathToFile);
sheet = 'sheetName';
row = 8;
col = 7;
cellRead = myExcel.readCell(sheet, row, col);