将文本文件读入matlab

Question

I keep trying to read a text file into matlab.
A sample of the text file is as shown below:

Sequence,rank,discipline,sincephd,service,sex,salary
1,Prof,B,19,18,Male,139750
2,Prof,B,20,16,Male,173200
3,AsstProf,B,4,3,Male,79750

My code is as shown:

clc
clear all
DELIMITER = ',';
HEADERLINES = 1;
% Import the file
newData1 = importdata('afifi.txt', DELIMITER, HEADERLINES);
% Create new variables in the base workspace from those fields.
vars = fieldnames(newData1);
for i = 1:length(vars)
    assignin('base', vars{i}, newData1.(vars{i}));
end

For some reason it will not read the last column properly. It only reads the first value in the first row, then does not read the rest of the last column. Anyone please tell me how to fix this!

Answer 1

You can use readtable to easily import a textfile with mixed data. The line would be as follows:

readtable('afifi.txt','Delimiter',DELIMITER,'ReadVariableNames',true);

After you can replace fieldnames(newData1) with newData1.Properties.VariableNames to get the columnnames. Put together, the code from your question works as desired:

clc
clear all
DELIMITER = ',';
% Import the file
newData1 = readtable('afifi.txt','Delimiter',DELIMITER,'ReadVariableNames',true);
% Create new variables in the base workspace from those fields.
vars = newData1.Properties.VariableNames;
for i = 1:length(vars)
    assignin('base', vars{i}, newData1.(vars{i}));
end

Answer 2

If you rename afifi.txt to afifi.csv , you can do this,

[num, txt, all] = xlsread('afifi.csv');

And get everything in all