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how to read big excel file faster?

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roudan
roudan el 1 de Feb. de 2018
Comentada: Walter Roberson el 1 de En. de 2023
Hi
I have a big excel file like 200MB and I am using xlread(). It is easier to use xlread(). But as the number of variables in the code increases over the time. It takes really long to open the excel file and close again using xlread(). The excel format is attached.
Is there other alternative way to read big excel file faster? Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
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bim
bim el 1 de En. de 2023
I packed the demo of @Image Analyst into a simple static class.
It keeps Excel open in the background while you read data from multiple files.
It has the limitation of only reading contiguous tables and only columns A-Z.
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson el 1 de En. de 2023
But in sufficiently new versions of MATLAB (r2017b-ish) xlsread() and xlswrite() were modified to cache the connection so these functions are only needed for older releases (or for the case where you want to get ahold of the activex handle for fancier operations.)

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roudan
roudan el 1 de Feb. de 2018
Thanks Walter and Bob, are you guys talking about the same thing like using actxserver('Excel.Application') when Walter was saying ActiveX? Any more examples? Thanks
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roudan
roudan el 1 de Feb. de 2018
Thank you Walter. I appreciate it.

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson el 1 de Feb. de 2018
If this is just a one-time read of the whole file, and you are doing this on MS Windows with Excel installed, then xlsread() is about as fast as you can get. xlsread() does have some overhead for matters such as figuring out worksheet names, so it is possible to set up for reading a bit faster by hard-coding that kind of information, but once that is set up, the ActiveX connection works about as fast as could be.
You could also experiment with readtable(). For xls files the binary format is examined and parsed somewhat efficiently, but the code is at the MATLAB level so using ActiveX would typically be more efficient because Excel is compiled. For xlsx files when Excel is not available, readtable() uses regexp() to parse the text after having to go through a series of set-up steps, and although regexp() is one of the faster operations in MATLAB, this is still going to be slower than using ActiveX to Excel.
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roudan
roudan el 6 de Feb. de 2018
Hi Walter,
Today I just open the excel file using xlread(), I got an error like this.
Error using xlsread (line 247) Error: Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.
Previously I can open the big file just speed is slow. Now I added many more global variables. Now I cannot even open it because of space issue. Is it because of many global variables which take up space even they are assigned to values? Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.

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