sheetnames

Get sheet names from spreadsheet file

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Syntax

sheets = sheetnames(filename)

Description

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

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Examples

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Open Live Script

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

sheets = sheetnames('airlinesmall_subset.xlsx')
sheets = 13×1 string
    "1996"
    "1997"
    "1998"
    "1999"
    "2000"
    "2001"
    "2002"
    "2003"
    "2004"
    "2005"
    "2006"
    "2007"
    "2008"

Input Arguments

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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 the remote location, scheme_name can be one of the values in this table.

Remote Locationscheme_name
Amazon S3™s3
Windows Azure® Blob Storagewasb, 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

Version History

Introduced in R2019b

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