How to load a mat-file in matlab

A .csv file is a comma-separated file, in which consecutive data columns are separated by commas and the end of a line is the default EOL character.

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While dealing with small data, it is common to use a .csv file for storing it. In this article, we shall discuss how to import .csv files, with numeric data and their text headers as the column variables, into a MATLAB workspace.

Read tables in MATLAB

We can use the simple readable command to import the data from a .csv file as a table with column variables (headers).

The readable command default detects the file type and makes the first row the column variables if it is in text form. 

Syntax

tab = readtable(“file_name.extension”)

See the following example to understand the same.

Example 1:

In this example, we import a .csv file with numeric data and display its variable names (headers).

The following .csv file is used.

Now, the above code will give us the following output:

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