readxls reads an Excel file sheets = readxls(file_path) file_path a character string: the path of the Excel file. sheets an mlist of type xls, with one field named sheets Given an Excel file path this function returns an mlist data structure of type xls, with one field named sheets. The sheets field itself contains a list of sheet data structure. sheet=mlist(['xlssheet','name','text','value'],sheetname,Text,Value) where sheetname is a character string containing the name of the sheet, Text is a matrix of string which contains the cell's strings and Value is a matrix of numbers which contains the cell's values. Only BIFF8 Excel files (last Excel file version (2003)) are handled. xls_open xls_read This function is based on the Scilab functions xls_open and xls_read.