write a cell arrray into an excel spreadsheet with the help of activex in matlab

Here is an example of how to write a cell array into an Excel spreadsheet using ActiveX in MATLAB:

main.m
% create a cell array
data = {'Name', 'Age', 'Gender';
        'John', 25, 'Male';
        'Emily', 30, 'Female';
        'Tom', 40, 'Male'};

% connect to Excel
excel = actxserver('Excel.Application');

% make Excel completely visible
excel.Visible = 1;

% add a new workbook
workbook = excel.Workbooks.Add();

% select the first sheet
sheet = workbook.Sheets.Item(1);

% get the size of the data array
[numRows, numCols] = size(data);

% write each cell in the data array to the Excel sheet
for i = 1:numRows
    for j = 1:numCols
        % convert cell content to string
        content = num2str(data{i,j});
        % write cell to Excel
        Range = get(sheet, 'Range', ['A', 'A'] + [i-1,j-1]);
        set(Range, 'Value', content);
    end
end

% save and close the workbook
workbook.SaveAs(fullfile(pwd, 'data.xlsx'));
workbook.Close();
excel.Quit();
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This code creates a 4 by 3 cell array in MATLAB and writes it to an Excel spreadsheet using ActiveX. It first connects to Excel through the actxserver function, then adds a new workbook, selects the first sheet, and iterates over each element in the cell array to write it to the corresponding cell in the Excel sheet. Finally, it saves the workbook and closes Excel.

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