Statistics Toolbox

tblread

Read tabular data from the file system

Syntax

• [data,varnames,casenames] = tblread
  [data,varnames,casenames] = tblread('filename')
  [data,varnames,casenames] = tblread('filename','delimiter')
  

Description

[data,varnames,casenames] = tblread displays the File Open dialog box for interactive selection of the tabular data file. The file format has variable names in the first row, case names in the first column and data starting in the (2,2) position.

[data,varnames,casenames] = tblread(filename) allows command line specification of the name of a file in the current directory, or the complete pathname of any file.

[data,varnames,casenames] = tblread(filename,'delimiter') allows specification of the field 'delimiter' in the file. Accepted values are 'tab', 'space', or 'comma'.

tblread returns the data read in three values.

Return Value	Description
data	Numeric matrix with a value for each variable-case pair.
varnames	String matrix containing the variable names in the first row.
casenames	String matrix containing the names of each case in the first column.

Example

• [data,varnames,casenames] = tblread('sat.dat')
  data =
     470   530
     520   480
  varnames =
  Male  
  Female
  casenames =
  Verbal      
  Quantitative
  

See Also

caseread, tblwrite, tdfread

tabulate

tblwrite