sheetnames

Get sheet names from spreadsheet file

Syntax

sheets = sheetnames(filename)

Description

sheets = sheetnames(filename) returns a string array of sheet names from the specified spreadsheet file.

Examples

Query Sheet Names from Spreadsheet File

Get the name of all worksheets from the spreadsheet file airlinesmall_subset.xlsx.

sheets = sheetnames('airlinesmall_subset.xlsx')

sheets = 13x1 string array
    "1996"
    "1997"
    "1998"
    "1999"
    "2000"
    "2001"
    "2002"
    "2003"
    "2004"
    "2005"
    "2006"
    "2007"
    "2008"

Input Arguments

filename — Name of file to read

character vector | string scalar

Name of the file to read, specified as a character vector or a string scalar.

Depending on the location of your file, filename can take one of these forms.

Location	Form
Current folder or folder on the MATLAB® path	Name of the file. Example: 'myFile.xls'
Other local folder	Full or relative path to the file. Example: 'C:\myFolder\myFile.xlsx' Example: 'myDir\myFile.xlsx'
Remote Location	Full path to the file, specified as a uniform resource locator (URL) of the form: scheme_name://path_to_file/my_file.ext Based on your remote location, scheme_name can be one of the values in this table. Remote Location scheme_name Amazon S3™ s3 Windows Azure® Blob Storage wasb, wasbs HDFS™ hdfs For more information, see Work with Remote Data. Example: 's3://bucketname/path_to_file/my_file.xlsx'

• On Windows^® systems with Microsoft^® Excel^® software, the sheetnames function supports: .xls, .xlsm, .xlsx, .xltm, .xltx, .xlsb, and .ods.

• If your system does not have Excel for Windows, then sheetnames supports only: .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, and .xltm files.

Data Types: char | string