How to load excel sheets into a struct

Hi,

I've created a code (see below), which successfuly so far enables me to access each subjects excel file, then each sheet within that excel file. Each subject has a varying number of sheets within their Excel file, with the first sheet for each subject always named 'Summary', then the sheets are named Trial1, Trial2, Trial3 etc.... each sheet represents a seperate trial.

I wish to use the data from each individual sheet, then put them into a struct which is named gait analysis report, then which subject number they are and finally which sheet it is.

So it may look like: GaitAnalysis Report - Subject1 - Trial 1 - Data for trial

The SheetData is in a table format and when I try to convert this to a struct I get the message 'Scalar structure required for this assignment'

Can someone please help?

for iExcelSubject = 1:size(ExcelFilePatients,1);
    GaitReport = ExcelFilePatients(iExcelSubject).name; %loads gait file
    [~,SheetNames] = xlsfinfo(GaitReport); %Takes all sheet names from the excel document
    nSheets=numel(SheetNames);
    %Loop over all sheets
    for iSheetData = 1:nSheets 
        SheetData = readtable(GaitReport,'sheet',iSheetData); %Loads each sheet
        GaitAnalysisReport.(iExcelSubject).(iSheetData) = table2struct(SheetData);        
    end
end

Answer 1

[Raunak Gupta]

Hi,

The Field names of structure you are trying to create need to be a variable name instead of integers and double value that are currently in the code while executing the for loop. It is suggested to use variable name as a field for structure otherwise dot indexing error will pop up.

Also, as you are trying to create a structure to contain all the data for lookup purposes the error mentioned should not occur. It appears only when it is attempted to modify the existing value of a structure field. If that is required following documentation may help.

Accessing element of non-scalar structure array

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