How can I use matlab to write data from a textfile and into an Excel sheet?

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My problem is that I got my data from laboratory testing in text files (.txt), and I can't copy them to an Excel sheet (3 columns and 5000+ rows). The text files got information like this:
Specimen identifier Test1 $
Time, Standard force, Standard travel
1.767510000000e+001,-4.922511577606e-001, 0.000000000000e+000
1.779509999732e+001,-4.709413945675e-001, 0.000000000000e+000
1.783509999642e+001,-4.614703953266e-001, 0.000000000000e+000
1.823510000238e+001,-1.105498909950e+000,-4.774307832122e-003
I am able to read the text file and plot it, but when I want to write it to Excel to have them in different columns, it gets harder to figure out how to do it. I got like 5000 rows, so to do it manually isn't an option :)
Anyone got an idea on how to extract it from the text file (.txt) and over to an Excel sheet, with the help of MATLAB?
Thankful for every answer I may get :)
-Stian

Accepted Answer

Sara
Sara on 13 May 2014
Once you have the data in matlab, use xlswrite. If you have 3 cols and n rows, where n can change:
xlswrite('filename.xlsx',your_array,['A1:C',num2str(n)])
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Stian
Stian on 19 May 2014
Edited: Stian on 19 May 2014
Thank you.
I ended up with this setup:
filename = 'Test1.xlsx';
Row = 5018; %Chosen timevalue at start of last cycle
T1 = [csvread('Test1.txt', Row, 0)]
xlswrite(filename,T1)

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 13 May 2014
Use xlswrite

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