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<MAN>
  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>
  <TITLE>excel2sci</TITLE>
  <TYPE>Scilab Function</TYPE>
  <DATE>April 1993</DATE>
  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="excel2sci"> reads ascii Excel files</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>
  <CALLING_SEQUENCE>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>M=excel2sci(fname [,sep])  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
  </CALLING_SEQUENCE>
  <PARAM>
    <PARAM_INDENT>
      <PARAM_ITEM>
        <PARAM_NAME>fname</PARAM_NAME>
        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
          <SP>: character string. The file path</SP>
        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
      </PARAM_ITEM>
      <PARAM_ITEM>
        <PARAM_NAME>sep</PARAM_NAME>
        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
          <SP>: character string. Excel separator used, default value is &quot;,&quot;</SP>
        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
      </PARAM_ITEM>
      <PARAM_ITEM>
        <PARAM_NAME>M</PARAM_NAME>
        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
          <SP>: matrix of strings</SP>
        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
      </PARAM_ITEM>
    </PARAM_INDENT>
  </PARAM>
  <DESCRIPTION>
    <P>
    Given an ascii  file created by Excel using &quot;Text and comma&quot; format
    <VERB>exel2sci(fname)</VERB> returns the corresponding Scilab matrix of
    strings. Use <VERB>exel2sci(fname,sep )</VERB> for an other choice of
    separator.</P>
    <P>
    Note: You may eval all or part ot <VERB>M</VERB> using function <VERB>evstr</VERB>.</P>
  </DESCRIPTION>
  <SEE_ALSO>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>read</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>evstr</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
  </SEE_ALSO>
</MAN>
