MATLAB Programming

Using the Import Wizard
If you are importing from a binary file, skip ahead to step 4: Determine
Assignment to Variables.
Previewing Contents of the File or Clipboard [Text
only]
When the Import Wizard imports text data from a file or the clipboard, it
opens the dialog box shown here and displays a portion of the raw data in
the preview pane on the left. You can use this display to verify that the file
contains the data you expect.
Preview of the data
in the file.
Delimiter found
in file.
Number of lines of
header text ignored.
Check this box to generate an M-file function
to perform future imports of this type.
The pane on the right side of the dialog box shows how MATLAB has assigned
the imported data to a default set of variables. The variable names appear
in the tabs above the display pane. Click any of these tabs to see the values
assigned to that variable. The variable names are derived from categories into
which the Import Wizard has sorted the data. These are
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