CODEWITHSUNDEEP
matlab
user6110593
user6110593

Reputation:

Rename titles of sheets for xlswrite

I need a bit of help to rename my tabels for xlswrite. I try to use the below code which work as long as the title names are different. However, when I have to identical titels like 'table1' in the example it won't work. How can I search the title strings and if two are identical give them an additional number so my Title array becomes Title={'table1 (1)'; 'table2'; 'table3'; 'table4'; 'table1 (2)';}.

Here is my code

Title={'table1'; 'table2'; 'table3'; 'table4'; 'table1';}
[FileNameBodeWrite,PathNameBodeWrite] = uiputfile({'*.xls'},'Save As', [ '.xls']);
filename=[PathNameBodeWrite FileNameBodeWrite];
t=1/numel(Table);
for ii = 1:numel(Table)
    sheet=ii;
    xlswrite(filename,Table{ii},sheet,'A1');
    e = actxserver('Excel.Application'); % # open Activex server
    ewb = e.Workbooks.Open(filename); % # open file (enter full path!)
    ewb.Worksheets.Item(ii).Name = Title{ii,1} % # rename sheets
    ewb.Save % # save to the same file
    ewb.Close(false)
    e.Quit 
end

Upvotes: 1

Views: 428

Answers (2)

gnovice
gnovice

Reputation: 125854

The easiest way would be to use matlab.lang.makeUniqueStrings (or genvarname prior to R2014a):

Title = {'table1'; 'table2'; 'table3'; 'table4'; 'table1'};
Title = matlab.lang.makeUniqueStrings(Title)

Title =

  5×1 cell array

    'table1'
    'table2'
    'table3'
    'table4'
    'table1_1'

Upvotes: 1

sco1
sco1

Reputation: 12214

A simple approach looks at the array of title strings and renames those that are repeated.

For example:

Title = {'table1'; 'table2'; 'table3'; 'table4'; 'table1'};

[unique_titles, ia, ic] = unique(Title, 'stable');  % Stable to retain order
counts = accumarray(ic, 1);  % Count occurrence of each title

% Iterate only over titles that occur more than once
for ii = ia(counts > 1)
    titleidx = find(ic == ii);  % Find where titles occur
    for jj = 1:counts(ii)
        Title{titleidx(jj)} = sprintf('%s (%u)', unique_titles{ii}, jj);
    end
end

Which returns:

Title =

  5×1 cell array

    'table1 (1)'
    'table2'
    'table3'
    'table4'
    'table1 (2)'

Upvotes: 0

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