file extraction...error.

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karan
karan on 15 Dec 2011
hi i am running this code and getting this error for some reason.can anybody help why???
d = dir('*.xls'); N_File = numel(d); % no of files present in the folder for same class
for num = 1:N_File
k = fullfile(d(num).name);
[~,~,dat] = xlsread(d(num).name);
C = [C;num2cell(num*ones(size(dat,1),1)),dat];
end
??? [~,~,dat] = xlsread(d(num).name); | Error: Expression or statement is incorrect--possibly unbalanced (, {, or [.
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 15 Dec 2011
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/13205-tutorial-how-to-format-your-question-with-markup

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 15 Dec 2011
Your version of MATLAB is probably too old to support using ~ in assignments.
Change
[~,~,dat] = xlsread(d(num).name);
to
[unneeded1,unneeded2,dat] = xlsread(d(num).name);
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karan
karan on 15 Dec 2011
Yes does not work on matlab 2009a but works on matlab 2010a.
Thank you.

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