Error using load? File appears in workspace

Hello, I'm currently trying to do a homework assignment for a MATLAB class I have. The professor gave us a matrix to perform Gaussian elimination on. I've downloaded the file, and it appears in the workspace. When I try to load the file, it gives me the error message:

Error using load Unable to read file 'y': no such file or directory.

I'm not sure where to go from here, I can't get anything else to work. Does anyone else have advice/help? I'm only a beginner, so thank you for the patience.

[dpb]

Need to see what the script/function gecp.m contains. It appears it's trying to use a load statement with but it's not clear how it expects to get the input filename to do so with the variable y containing an file name but it also appears that y is the string 'y' somehow altho as you note there's an existing y numeric array in the workspace.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You don't load y. y was already in the workspace -- we can see it in the workspace panel in your screenshot! It was probably created by one of those other m-files that you had run previously. Just do "clear all" and look over your history to discover what you did to make the y spring into existence. And once it's there, it's there -- no need to try to load it or a file called y, which does not exist in your current folder as we can see from your screenshot.