Reading .csv with dlmread? (I'm doing something wrong)

I'm trying to read this CSV file, attached below. I tried:

 x = dlmread('tse2001to2020.csv',',',2,1)

Because I'm trying to skip the header, but it gives me this error message:

Error using dlmread (line 147)
Mismatch between file and format character vector.
Trouble reading 'Numeric' field from file (row number
1, field number 3) ==>
/4/2002,12,4,2002,07:32:16,142,Total,1.024,2:04:00 AM\n

Error in HW7Prob3 (line 1)
x = dlmread('tse2001to2020.csv',',',

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

It won't work because you have strings in the lines. You can use readtable() though:

filename = 'tse2001to2020.csv';
t = readtable(filename)

[Emanuele Joy]

Is there no way to use dlmread? My homework prompt says "1. Import the CSV file (or your formatted file) using the function dlmread." If I were to use dlmread, would I have to convert or reformat the .csv file?

[per isakson]

"Is there no way to use dlmread?" Not as far as I known. The old (before table) way to read your file is textscan. BTW: dlmraed is based on textscan.

[Image Analyst]

I think you can but you're have to call it at least twice - basically send in row and column inputs but avoid the string column, where the string it 'Total'.

By the way, you're supposed to tag homework as homework so no one gives you the solution directly, which could get you in trouble if you turned in that solution as your own work. I've added the tag for you to help you avoid that problem.

[Emanuele Joy]

Oh, sorry! Wasn't aware of that. I'll do that next time. Thanks for all the help!