To read HTML code from a web page, use webread . To extract text from an HTML file, use extractFileText .

To upload files from your system to MATLAB Online, in your system file browser, select the files that you want to upload. Then, drag the files anywhere on the MATLAB Online desktop. MATLAB places the files in the current folder.

Use fopen to open the file, specify the character encoding, and obtain the fileID value. When you finish reading, close the file by calling fclose(fileID) . A = fscanf( fileID , formatSpec , sizeA ) reads file data into an array, A , with dimensions, sizeA , and positions the file pointer after the last value read.

opts = detectImportOptions( filename ) locates a table in a file and returns its import options. You can modify the options object and use it with readtable to control how MATLAB^® imports tabular data. The type of the options returned depends on the file extension.