Saving with filename from excel

Hi

I getting text from excel cell A1. This value changes for different dataset.

Question: How to use it as a filename for saving image.

I am currently using saveas(gcf,'Test.jpg');

or saveas(gca, fullfile(folderName, 'Test'),'jpeg');

Thanks

[TAB]

fname = xlsread('your_excel.xlsx', 'A1');
saveas(gcf, [fname '.jpg']);

[Siva Ratnasingam]

Thank for your reply.

Followed the code. I displayed fname and it shows the correct name but it is showing an error.

Invalid filename: .jpg

[Paolo]

Try

 saveas(gcf,fname,'jpg')

[Siva Ratnasingam]

IT still show an error:

Error using saveas (line 96)

Invalid filename.

My code:

fname= xlsread('c:\data.xlsx','sheet1','a1');

saveas(gcf,fname, 'jpg'); also tried '.jpg'

disp(fname);

disp shows 'testing123'

invalid filename.

I tried

saveas(gcf,'testing123', 'jpg');

it saves as testing123.jpg

[Paolo]

Try

 saveas(gcf,cell2mat(fname),'jpg')

[Siva Ratnasingam]

It works.

Thank you very much Paolo

[Paolo]

You are welcome, I wrote an answer for the question so that other people can easily find the solution if they are facing the same problem.

Answer 1

[Paolo]

It does not work because the string contained in fname is wrapped inside a cell.

You must convert the cell to the data type contained within it.

Use:

 saveas(gcf,cell2mat(fname),'jpg')