Re: Question about Octave xlsread

[Philip Nienhuis]

Hi

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Farzad Torabi wrote:
> Hello and thank you so much for developing this really needed package !
>
> I would like to email you about an issue I have , given that I have 
> written my code in MATLAB and QUITE recently installed the last Octave 
> 5.1.0 64bit.
>
> I need to run this command in Octave, but I am not sure if the 
> installation is done, despite I did pkg install
>
> [numdata,txtData,all] =xlsread(filelist);
>
> running the above line I get :
>
>
>
>
> /warning: Functions for spreadsheet style I/O (.xls .xlsx .sxc .ods .dbf 
> .wk1
> etc.)  are provided in the io package.  See
> <https://octave.sourceforge.io/io/>.
>
> Please read <https://www.octave.org/missing.html> to learn how you can
> contribute missing functionality./
> *error: 'xlsread' undefined near line 42 column 24*

pkg load io

Philip