How to export data to excel

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How can I export data to Excel, if I have the following .txt file, separated with commas.
HTSGW, [m], 197901010000, 197901010000, 0.000 HTSGW, [m], 197901010000, 197901010300, 0.220 HTSGW, [m], 197901010000, 197901010600, 0.420 HTSGW, [m], 197901010000, 197901010900, 0.560 HTSGW, [m], 197901010000, 197901011200, 2.190
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José-Luis
José-Luis on 1 Jul 2016
Edited: José-Luis on 1 Jul 2016
Why go through Matlab? If you have a text file, why don't you just open it in excel and get rid of the middle man?
Oterwise, there's always xlswrite().

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Andrei Bobrov
Andrei Bobrov on 1 Jul 2016
f = fopen('yourtextfile.txt');
c = textscan(f,'%s %s %s %s %s','delimiter',',');
fclose(f);
xlswrite('nameyourxlsxfile.xlsx',[c{:}])
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Javier Martinez
Javier Martinez on 1 Jul 2016
Thank you very much!
Javier Martinez
Javier Martinez on 1 Jul 2016
Edited: Javier Martinez on 1 Jul 2016
The code works fine. It would be grateful if you could also help with this: Once I have the excel file, the last column shows numbers like 2.190 (which actually corresponds to 2,190 meters) however excel reads directly the number 2.190 (two thousand hundred and ninety) which is false. What can I do to avoid this, I have been looking for changing points into commas, however I cannot solve that.

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