İmporting values form excel to matlab and use them in array

hi,

I have excel documents which contain time-velocity values in two coloumns so i used xlsread command to import values to matlab for calculating distance but i have a problem

time = xlsread(filename,1,'coloumn1'); velocity = xlsread(filename,1,'coloumn2');

the problem is how can i use this values in a loop form beginnig to end.(I want to use for loop and how can i put this values in array one by one)

[dpb]

doc for

has a couple of examples...

But, in general the idea in Matlab is to not use for...end loops unless mandatory; that "throws away" the power of vectorization that is the raison d'etre for Matlab to begin with.

What are you trying to accomplish--perhaps there's a better way (then again, sometimes a loop is the right answer, too).

Answer 1

[Yatin]

Hi,

By using the "xlsread" function you can directly get all the data from the excel sheet into a matrix. You can then directly obtain the individual columns of the matrix. For e.g: The first columns of the matrix (say M) will be M(:,1). You can then get the total number of elements in a column by using the " numel " function and then can iterate from 1 to the number of elements in the vector in a for loop. Hope this helps.