Thank you for your prompt response!

I was, however, able to come up with a suitable solution.
I added a button to go along with the table, appropriately labeled “Paste”. I added the following code to the button callback:

raw_data = importdata('-pastespecial');

set(handles.input_table,'Data',raw_data)

Of course, I added code between those two lines to make sure the user is entering numeric data and in the correct size dimensions! :-P

Thanks!

I have put in a request for that functionality. Let us hope that the priority is high enough for it to happen soon!

Doug

First, your videos are always very useful! Keep up the good work!

Second, the uitable doesn’t allow the user to copy and paste data into the uitable cells from Excel. I would like to have this functionality, but am unsure how to accomplish it.

I am aware that I could prompt the user to select an Excel file and read the data that way, but different users may not have to same Excel sheet formating. A simple copy and paste utility would work wonderfully.

Any suggestions?
Thanks!

best regards,

Chia

Please send reproduction steps to me via e-mail.

Doug

My question,
why is it if i try get the data from the table, it appears the quote sign (”) in each element even if i have set the format to be numeric in column option.. str2num doesnt work too.. Maybe filling the table with ‘workspace data’ will do the trick, but i want the table to be empty before user edit/input the table.

thanks.

This video shows how to set the value of data in a UITABLE. XLSREAD will get the data into MATLAB. Look in the Excel section of this blog to find videos on how to read the data in from Excel in MATLAB.

Doug

Thanks for replied. But I still need a little help. How do I make the command for load the data and the command to place the data into the table ? In fact, if it possible, could you please provide me the code for this purpose ?

It will take two commands, one to load it in, one to place it in the table. Once put into a little function, it can seem like a single command though.

Doug