Re: Import large field-delimited file with strings and numbers

[Andreas Weber]

Am 06.09.2014 16:19, schrieb João Rodrigues:
> 
> I need to import a large CSV file with multiple columns with mixed
> string and number entries, such as:
> 
> field1, field2, field3, field4
> A,        a,        1,       1.0,
> B,        b,        2,        2.0,
> C,        c,        3,        3.0,
> 
> and I want to pass this on to something like
> 
> cell1 ={[1,1] = A; [2,1] = B; [3,1] = C};
> cell2 ={[1,1] = a; [2,1] = b; [3,1] = c};

Are the first 2 columns only one character long? Then you don't need to
use a cell array for this. A simple char matrix would be sufficient.
-- Andy