How do I import CSV files using csvread?

I cannot seem to import the multiple CSV files the code I am using is below:

%% Import data

numfiles = 54; % number of CSV files mydata=cell(numfiles,1); % defining size of mydata

for i=7:length(mydata) % loop to import mutliple CSV files

    myfilename = sprintf('Trial%d.csv', i); % define file name 

    mydata{i} = csvread(myfilename); % import files into mydata
end

Answer 1

[dpb]

Looks like should work presuming your filenames are ok but I'd do it slightly differently.

Try sotoo...

d=dir('*.csv');   % return the list of csv files
for i=1:length(d)
  m{i}=csvread(d(i).name);   % put into cell array
end

Worked here for a few in my working directory.

Note that the files need to be consistent with what content csvread can handle which is numeric array data only.

What specific problem did you encounter?

[Franchesca]

It still doesn't seem to work I receive the following error:

Error using dlmread (line 139) Mismatch between file and format string. Trouble reading number from file (row 1u, field 1u) ==> Devices\n

Error in csvread (line 48) m=dlmread(filename, ',', r, c);

Error in saveee (line 13) m{i}=csvread(d(i).name); % put into cell array

This is a preview of the data I am using:

Answer 2

[dpb]

As the doc says,

...All data in the input file must be numeric. dlmread does not operate on files containing nonnumeric data, even if the specified rows and columns for the read contain numeric data only.

As you can tell, csvread has the same limitation since it's a wrapper around dlmread

Also the error shows you it's the first line in the file containing the string 'Devices\n' that it barfed over.

Use textscan or textread or importdata instead...

ADDENDUM

Or, if you're adamant about using csvread, save the data w/o the header information into another file and process that one.

One additional alternative would be to read (I presume there is one) the .xls file directly w/ xlsread which will give the text into as well as the data.

ADDENDUM 2

If all you need is the array of data of the five columns, my preferred approach (being a traditionalist/minimalist in not using cell arrays where aren't needed) would be

d=dir('*.csv');   % return the list of csv files
for i=1:length(d)
  m{i}=textread(d(i).name,'','headerlines',5);   % put into cell array
end

The above presumes the format of each is identical in having precisely five header lines preceding the data array.

[BOB]

when I try this I get these errors:

Error using dataread Number of outputs must match the number of unskipped input fields.

Error in textread (line 175) [varargout{1:nlhs}]=dataread('file',varargin{:}); %#ok<REMFF1>

[dpb]

Need to see the command precisely as used and a snippet of the file...

Answer 3

[BOB]

Answer 4

[dpb]

m{i}=textread(d(i).name,'','headerlines',5);

Gotta' have an empty format field for textread to not need multiple outputs. Looks like I typed from keyboard instead of cut 'n paste myself and missed that I missed it...

[BOB]

Getting this now :(

[Image Analyst]

The line starts with a comma instead of a number. That's probably causing the error. Why does it not start with a number???

[BOB]

what line?

[dpb]

The error data line seems to not have the first column '1' in it for some reason...