Re: Loading Excel files

[Martin Helm]

Am 18.04.2012 16:51, schrieb Reza Housseini:
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> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Arman Maghoul <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
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>     Dear all ,
>     I've been using octave and I'm pretty pleased by its features.
>     Right now I need to load some Excel files into the program and I
>     can't find any suitable function.
>     My question is this:
>          Is there any function for GNU octave for loading Excel files?
>     Thanks in advance for your help.
>     Regards.
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>     -- 
>     Arman Maghoul.
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> Hello Arman,
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> as far as I know there's no functionality for loading excel files.
> This is due to the fact that it isn't an open
> format: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.en.html
> Convert it to an .csv and use dlmread
>
> Greeting Reza
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>
There are functions for that in octave-forge (look at the io package)

http://octave.sourceforge.net/io/index.html

(look into the function reference, you probably need also the java
package as a dependency).