Question

I want to import a row of headers form Excel into matlab then put each header into its according variable’s name in MATLAB. Just like the picture below shows, I import all the variables into a matrix ‘X’, then I would like to import the header one by one to rename all the columns. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

See the documentation of xlsread; you have to load all the data:

from matlab doc: Example

Request the numeric data, text, and a copy of the unprocessed (raw) data from myExample.xlsx:

[ndata, text, alldata] = xlsread('myExample.xlsx')

ndata =
     1     2     3
     4     5   NaN
     7     8     9

text = 
    'First'    'Second'    'Third'
    ''         ''          ''     
    ''         ''          'x'    

alldata = 
    'First'    'Second'    'Third'
    [    1]    [     2]    [    3]
    [    4]    [     5]    'x'    
    [    7]    [     8]    [    9]

In case you know in which cells the headers are, you can also specify a range to read from the excel file:

[~, headers, ~ ] = xlsread('myExample.xlsx','A1:C1');

this gives (for the example data used above ^^):

headers = 
    'First'    'Second'    'Third'