Statistics Toolbox

caseread

Read casenames from a file

Syntax

• names = caseread('filename')
  names = caseread 
  

Description

names = caseread('filename') reads the contents of filename and returns a string matrix of names. filename is the name of a file in the current directory, or the complete pathname of any file elsewhere. caseread treats each line as a separate case.

names = caseread displays the Select File to Open dialog box for interactive selection of the input file.

Example

Read the file months.dat created using the function casewrite on the next page.

• type months.dat
  January
  February
  March
  April
  May
  names = caseread('months.dat')
  names =
  January 
  February
  March   
  April   
  May     
  

See Also

tblread, gname, casewrite, tdfread

capaplot

casewrite