MATLAB: How to open a .txt file from a cell in excel through matlab.

Question

I have an excel file which will be for user input one of the inputs is a filename (i.e. filename.txt) in a cell in excel. I will then use matlab's xlsread command to read the sheet of inputs and I want to use dlmread('filname.txt') to read a separate .txt file which is just a list of numbers. Is this possible?

Answer 1

[~, ~, raw] = xlsread('AppropriateFilenameGoesHere.xls');
filename = raw{17, 42};    %choose appropriate location
data = dlmread(filename);