xls_read — read a sheet in an Excel file
[Value,TextInd] = xls_read(fd,Sheetpos)
a number, the logical unit on the Excel stream returned by xls_open.
a number: the position of the beginning of the sheet in the Excel stream. This position is one of those returned by xls_open.
a matrix of numbers, the numerical data found in the sheet. The cell
without numerical data are represented by NaN values.
a matrix of indices with the same size as Value. The 0
indices indicates that no string exists in the correspondin Excel
cell. a positive index i points to the string
SST(i) where SST is given by xls_open.
This function reads an Excel sheet given a logical unit on an Excel stream ant the position of the beginning of the sheet within this stream. It returns the numerical data and the strings contained by the Excel cells.
The readxls function can be used to read all an Excel file in one function with a single function call.
Warning only BIFF8 Excel files (last Excel file version) are handled
//Decode ole file, extract and open Excel stream
[fd,SST,Sheetnames,Sheetpos] = xls_open('SCI/modules/spreadsheet/demos/xls/Test1.xls')
//Read first data sheet
[Value,TextInd] = xls_read(fd,Sheetpos(1))
//close the spreadsheet stream
mclose(fd)
This function is based on Excel stream description from OpenOffice (http://sc.openoffice.org/spreadsheetfileformat.pdf).