Read data using xlsread and store in a variable
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Hi I have an Excel file with 1000 rows and i want to pick 30 random rows from it, i used xlsread command to read the excel data in for loop, i want to save all the rows read from the file but the issue i am facing is that when i save in a MAT file (using save command) i just only the last row that overwrites all other rows. please answer quickly,i am very thankful
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XueJing Yu
on 20 Mar 2015
Maybe you can read all data and then select rows using function "resample".
data = xlsread(yourFileNameHere);
nTotalRows = 30;
nSelection = 10;
selectedRowIndex = datasample(1:1:nTotalRows,nSelection,'Replace',false);
dataSelection = data(selectedRowIndex,:);
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