cannot read excel string data

[olinn]

When I used xlsread to read a excel file containing both numerical and string data. I got a error in Matlab as follows:

Skipping 16 bytes of extended strings.
??? File does not contain valid Excel data. Invalid record ID.

Error in ==> E:\MATLAB6p5\toolbox\matlab\iofun\private\biffparse.dll
Error in ==> E:\MATLAB6p5\toolbox\matlab\iofun\xlsread.m
On line 90 ==> [n, s] = biffparse(biffvector, names{1});

But if the excel file contains only numerical data, it is okey. So what is the problem? Thank you so much!

 

[olinn]

Okey. I found it out by searching. It is a bug for BIFFREAD function in Matlab release R13. It has been fixed in release R14.