xlsread

% XLSREAD reads EXCEL-files. 
% Currently, only a hack to read excel tables is implemented.  
% First, you need to convert your excel table into a tab-delimited 
% text file. Then you can use XLSREAD to load that file. 
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%  [NUM, STR] = XLSREAD(filename) 
%      filename        tab-delimited text file
%      NUM contains numeric data
%      STR contains textual data
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% see also: STR2DOUBLE
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