IO

• Console Input
• File Input
• Excel Input

Console Input

It's important to give the user a choice to import some info from the workspace. In order to do this you have the command a=input('Some text \n');. With this Matlab displays the 'Some text to the user and stores the inserted value in the variable a.

age=input('Insert your Age \n');
fprintf('Your age is %d \n',age);

File Input

For simple .txt files, for example just put it in your workspace and execute the command A=importdata(filename) Some examples and more details can be found in this page

Excel Input

Perhaps the most import file type to import data from in an Engineering course! For a list of commands on how to do this you can consult the documentation. The excel columns will be imported as column vectors.

%Basic excel import
num = xlsread('data.xls');

The previous example will create a matrix num with all non null columns of the file 'data.xls' as column vectors!