How to use a variable name as an Excel range?

I want to be able to use my variable, Value_Col, as the range which the Excel file references to find the column. The column is not always located in the same place so I am not able to use conventional methods like:'B2:B' to locate the correct column.

Answer 1

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Try something like this:

cellReference = sprintf('A%d:C%d', rowA, rowC); % Create cell reference
[numbers, strings, raw] = xlsread(filename, sheetname, cellReference);

where rowA and rowC are numerical variables saying what rows you want to read in.

Basically you can use sprintf() to build up any cell reference in the standard "A1:B2" style, then pass that in to xlsread().