Load any file type into matlab

Question

I have a matlab GUI....I'd like to load ANY file type(doc,txt,dat,xls) into matlab as a matrix through the GUI...I'd appreciate any help I can get!!

Answer 1

DOC, XLS, DAT to txt

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As you might have realised by now, .doc are not plain-text. AFAIK, Matlab doesn't have any method to natively read these files. Hence, i suggest you do the following:

• .txt go ahead and implement your GUI to read and intrepret Matrix-data from a .txt file.

  You might want to refer this:

  http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/dlmread.html

• .xls USe the xlsread() function in MATLAB. Documentation below:

  http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/xlsread.html

• .doc files, Save as .txt and use the above .txt loader you implemented already.

• .dat is not a standard extension several kinds of apps use .dat files and the internal format is different in all cases. (Post me a sample standard .dat file if U have one and i'll try and get back to you as to how to parse it in matlab.)

GoodLUCK!!