Read blank row as 0

What function in MATLAB can I use that reads an excel line and plots 0 when it has a blank space

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Matt Fig
Matt Fig on 26 Sep 2012
Blank rows are read as nans with xlsread. So use
N(isnan(N))=0

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Sorry,I didn't understand how can I use this to read the blank spaces as 0.
N is the output from xlsread, assuming you have numeric data. See the help for xlsread.
help xlsread
N = xlsread(filename);
Where there is a blank cell in the Excel worksheet, N will be NaN at those locations, and N will have valid numbers at other locations where you have valid numbers in the worksheet. Matt's code changes those matrix locations with NaN's in them from NaN to 0, as you requested. Understand?

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