How to import Excel table with column of as individual variables?

How would I import a table from Excel such as this

to load into my workspace as this?

Using the readtable function inputs it as a table with a column of the names and a column for values (except the fts2mph and mph2fts which show up as NaN but that's another issue)

idk how to convert it to individual variables from the table or if there's a direct way to create the variables from the Excel file

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

Try the rows2vars function on the result of readtable. It reorients a table so that rows become variables.

The variables will still be part of a table (columns of a table are the variables), so they will not show up individually in your workspace, but you can access them using table.varName notation (see here).

[Joey Otanez]

I try that but them showing up as strings is messing with the call to the variable in the table like so

[Cris LaPierre]

It's preferrable to copy/paste your code and to attach your data file using the paperclip icon. It makes it much easier to help.

Open your table in the variable editor to see what the names are. Or run this code

Constants.Properties.VariableNames

[Joey Otanez]

Executing that code results in a 1x2 cell array of Var1 and Var2

[Cris LaPierre]

Those are your variable names.

Look through the examples on the rows2vars documentation page. This is expected. You will need to use the 'VariableNameSource' name-value pair to name the new table variables something else.

Answer 2

[Peter Perkins]

I don't know that readtable is the way to go here. If you really just have a few named scalars, you might think about readcell (since R2019a), and then create a scalar struct named constants with one field for each of rhoSL aSL, etc. You could also poof them into your workspace using eval, but that's usually considered bad form.