how to read in an excel file properly in basic mode?

[nicolagao]

I am trying to read in a .xls file with one column in text and one column of numbers. On Windows, '[num, txt]= xlsread(filename, ...)' works perfectly. Now, I want to run it on a Unix platform, which seems not supporting this command. Is there anything working like this command in basic mode? Or anything can read in txt properly from .xls?
Thanks a lot!

 

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