how to load and use data?

sir ,i have an image and i find out a learned dictionary for the image and store it by using "xlswrite".then i find out the sparse of an image and also store it in the same way.now i want to multiply these two "xls" files.when i tried to load them on my command window by using "k=load('name.xls')",it shows an ERROR like"??? Error using ==> load Unknown text on line number 1 of ASCII file C:\Users\kiit\Documents\MATLAB\dict.xls"ÐÏࡱá"."please tell me how to fix it or tell me how to save the "dictionary" and my "matrix" for my further use.PLEASE HELP.THANKS IN ADVANCE.

[Iman Ansari]

doc xlsread

[Amith Kamath]

Looks like you have special characters in the .XLS file. Double check the contents of the file before loading into MATLAB.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Do not use load() to load .xls files: use xlsread()