I am having a simple problem while reading excel data which contains strings, long string, and numbers. Now I need to make each column (I have 11 here) to define separate variables of 1 column vector so that I can plot in MATLAB against each other or combination.
But the problem is the reading the file and creating 11 column vector. When I assign variable the header also comes.
Code:
%fid = fopen('Data_Link.xlsx');
[num,txt,raw] = xlsread('Data_Link.xlsx');
%fclose(fid);
% Extract data from readData
A = raw(:,1);
B = raw(:,2);
C = raw(:,6);
So I need the variables without header
Data file is truncated and given here.
Can anyone help me?
You can use readtable as ThP suggested. But if you want to use xlsread and you want your data without the header, you just need to remove the first row as in the below example:
%fid = fopen('Data_Link.xlsx');
[num,txt,raw] = xlsread('Data_Link.xlsx');
%fclose(fid);
% Extract data from readData
A = raw(2:end,1);
B = raw(2:end,2);
C = raw(2:end,6);
Note that each array will receive data from row 2 to last row.
You can use readtable instead of xlsread.
Using
T = readtable(‘Data_Link.xlsx’)
will result in a table with a variable for each column. For example T.Year would hold the values from the ‘Year’ column and T.Title would hold the values from the ‘Title’ column, etc.
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I'm reading an excelfile in matlab with
[NUM,TXT,RAW]=xlsread(DATENEXCEL,sSheet_Data);
In the excelfile are different datamatrices in different sheets in the following form
Date Firm1 Firm2 Firm3 ...
1.1.16 12 12 12
... ... ... ...
Currently I'm handling the pure data with the NUM object and the header row with the TXT object. My first issue is how to combine the header row with the data rows. Looping does not work, since I predefine the data matrix with
daten=zeros([length(sDatesequence) size(RAW,2)]);
because I want to be able to add more data from different sources to that object. Predefining with zeros, however, leads Matlab to expect doubles and not characters. Converting the cell array TXT with cell2mat delivers unsatisfying results:
cell2mat(TXT(1,:))=Firm1Firm2Firm3...
hence only a long string vector.
Question: Is there another way to combine character vectors and double matrices?
Regards,
Richard
You can combine them in a cell array.
c{1,1} = 'Firm1';
c{1,2} = datavector;
c{2,1} = 'Firm2';
c{2,2} = datavector;
But as far as I know it is not possible to add text headers to a numerical matrix, unless you do something with typcasting. But I would not recommend that.
d(1:8)='Firm1 '; %must have exactly eight characters (a double has a length of 8 bytes)
y = typecast(uint8(d),'double') %now you have a number that would fit in a matrix of doubles
x=char(typecast(y,'uint8')) %now it's converted back to text
I know how to read in multiple Excel files, but am struggling to conduct the same analysis on all of those files. The analysis requires I average some values in different columns, then print those average values to a separate Excel sheet. I can do this with one Excel file, but have trouble figuring out how to print each average value in a different row in the output Excel file. Here is the code I have that works for one file (reads it, averages values in column 4, then prints to a separate Excel file):
data = xlsread('test_1.xlsx');
average_values_1 = data(:,4);
a = [average_values_1];
data_cells = num2cell(a);
column_header ={'Average Value 1'};
row_header(1,1) ={'File 1'}
output = [{' '} column_header; row_header data_cells];
xlswrite('Test Averages.xls', output);
How might I do this over and over again while printing values from each file in the output file as its own table? I suspect a nested loop is in my future.
Thanks in advance.
Here is working example of what you possibly want to do with xlswrite[1]:
filename = 'testdata.xlsx'; % Filename to save average values in
for k = 1:10 % Looping for 10 iterations
sheet = 2; % Selecting sheet2
Avg = randi([1 10],1,1); % Generating a random average each time the loop is run
xlRange = char(64+k); % 65 is the ASCII value of A
xlswrite(filename,Avg,sheet,xlRange); % Writing the excel file
end
This code gives the following output [2] :
Fig.1: Values are saved in a single row of excel file
If you want to get the output in a single column then use this xlRange = ['A',num2str(k)]; instead. It'll give you the following output [2] :
Fig.2: Values are saved in a single column of excel file
[1]: Read the documentation of xlswrite for more details.
[2]: Output values may vary since random integers are generated.
I am trying to import the data from an excel sheet in which there are 3 columns (Time; Id; and Data).
The first column contains time (in seconds) while the next column has numbers (Id). The third column (Data), however, has hexadecimal numbers, therefore Matlab is unable to process that information and shows 'NaN' in the command window/structure whenever I try to retrieve any information from the third column.
I want to create a structure for each Ids and display the respective information inside that Id.
Hence is there anyway to obtain the information from the third column without getting NaN error?
Here's my code:
[dat1, dat2, dat3] = xlsread('1');
flds=dat3(1,:);
bus=cell2struct(dat3(2:end,:),flds,2);
for k=1:length(bus)
if bus(k).Id == 150
i=i+1;
can_bus(k,:)
end
end
You can get the raw text and do the conversion yourselves:
To get the text, you have to get other output parameters
from xlsread. For example:
[num,txt,raw] = xlsread('file.xls');
will return the numeric values in num, the text values in txt, and
the raw cell data in raw.
Source
I have a script that runs through a series of strings and using regex pulls out certain strings (approx 4 output strings per input string).
e.g. HelloStackOverflowWorld
-> Hello; Stack; Overflow; World;
The final output would ideally be a table where I can filter based upon the strings in the columns. Using the case above, column 1 row 1 would have 'Hello', column 2 row 1 would have 'Stack' and so on.
The problem is, the size of the output will change depending on the input so I am unsure of what output format to use.
At the moment I used something similar to this:
if strfind(missing{ii},'hello')
miss.exch = [miss.exch;'hello'];
temp.exc = regexp(missing{ii},'(?<=\d[Q|T])(\w*?)(?=[q])','match');
miss.exc = [miss.exc;temp.exc];
temp.TQ= regexp(missing{ii},'(Qc|Tc)','match');
if strcmp(temp.TQ{1,1}, 'Tc')
miss.TQ = [miss.TQ;'variableA'];
elseif temp.TQ{1,1} == 'Qc'
miss.TQ = [miss.TQ;'variableB'];
end
else if .........
end
Which obviously results in a 1x1 struct consisting of a number of fields each with many cells. This makes filtering on strings an issue!
How can I define and add data into a 'table of strings' that I can then filter?
I think you are just looking for a cell array. Here is a simple example of what they can do:
C = {'Abc','Bcd';'Cde',[]}
strcmp(C,'Cde')
Results in:
ans =
0 0
1 0
Make sure to check doc cell to see how you can access them.
I need to know if there is any function that can import data from excel row by row?
I used to work with xlsread but it won't work for this case unless i use it in a function that takes all the columns and group all the element in the same row together...
Edit: I was able to do it using simple xlsread by the following code:
num = xlsread(excel_file,'B2:BI174');
row1=num(1:173:end);
It is tempting to read the data one row at a time, but that means you will waste time due to file access overhead. It's a lot faster to read all at once and re-pack into a cell array:
allData = xlsread('filename.xls');
oneRowPerElementCell = mat2cell(allData, ones(size(allData,1),1), size(allData,2));
Read xlsread documentation here to read a block from excel file.
Example: To read the first row from 1st to 26th coulmn use,
row1 = xlsread('filename.xlsx',sheet_no,'A1:Z1');