9.1) Reading And Writing Data

How can we import data into Matlab?

Matlab offers a wealth of functionality to help the user load and import data into the Matlab environment. We shall introduce the followings ways to import data into Matlab:

• Importing data using the generic importdata command
• Copying and pasting
• Importing from a text file, using load, textread and textscan
• Importing from an Excel spreadsheet