xlsread on mac os x!
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i've been used xlsread function on windows with out any problem, but on mac os x, it doesnt work, there is always an error in line 129, file adress in mac os is different from windows, on mac adress is indicated by / but on windows by \ . which of them should i use on mac? i tried both of them, it didnt work, what shoul i do?
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Walter Roberson
on 9 May 2012
The '/' is a valid path separator on both OS-X and MS Windows.
xlsread() on OS-X (and Linux) before R2012a is restricted to "basic mode" and cannot handle .xlsx files or extended .xls files.
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Friedrich
on 10 May 2012
You use xlsread wrong. The fist input is the path to the xls file:
xlsread('Users/babakloghmani/Desktop/2.xls','a1:a3868') or if the "2" is a folder on your desktop
xlsread('Users/babakloghmani/Desktop/2/2.xls','a1:a3868')
Walter Roberson
on 10 May 2012
xlsread('/Users/babakloghmani/Desktop/2.xls','a1:a3868')
Notice the leading "/". Without that, operating systems will look relative to the current directory. The leading "/" tells the OS that the path is absolute.
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