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Re: Excel spreadsheet matrix into Octave using clipboard?
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Mike Miller |
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Re: Excel spreadsheet matrix into Octave using clipboard? |
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Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:31:46 -0600 (CST) |
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
>
> > I may lack certain basics. When in Excel, I don't see a menu option called
> > "export". And where would I export to? I don't know what a CSV file is. I
> ^^^^^^^
> It may be in "File -> Save As..."
That's correct. I have used that Excel feature many times and saved files
as tab-delimited text. After I've moved the file to my unix machine, I
can use
awk -F'\t'
to grab needed columns of the file, or I can use
tr '\t' ','
or to change from tab-delimited to column-delimited format.
Depending on your data structure, you might just save the file as plain
text and bring it straight into Octave.
Merry Christmas!
Mike
> or something like that -- I do not have Excel handy to check it myself.
> CSV is a "Comma Separated Values" -- it is an ASCII file format, where
> columns values separated by a comma.
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