Re: Loading Excel files

[PhilipNienhuis]

Reza Housseini-2 wrote
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Arman Maghoul <a.m.aegit@> wrote:
> 
>> Dear all ,
>> I've been using octave and I'm pretty pleased by its features.
>> Right now I need to load some Excel files into the program and I can't
>> find any suitable function.
>> My question is this:
>>      Is there any function for GNU octave for loading Excel files?
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>> Regards.
>>
>> --
>> Arman Maghoul.
>>
> 
> Hello Arman,
> 
> as far as I know there's no functionality for loading excel files. This is
> due to the fact that it isn't an open format:
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.en.html
> Convert it to an .csv and use dlmread
> 

In core Octave there's no support, true.

But Octave-Forge does have it, look here:
http://octave.sourceforge.net/io/index.html

You'll also need either
 (on Windows) just the Windows package + MS-Excel installed
or 
 (on all OS incl. Windows) just the Java package + a Java JDK (OpenJDK if
you want).

P.


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