blanks are not stored in strsplit

Below are two lines of my csv file

L1 = 6,ABC,test,22.6
L2 = 7,ABC,,22.6

I am hoping to get the third element of each line, i.e., 'test' for Line 1 and a blank space '' for Line 2.This is my code:

C = strsplit(L,',');
C{3}

But instead, I got 'test' for Line 1, and '22.6' for Line 2. How should I modify the code to get the former?

Thanks.

Answer 1

[Ken Atwell]

Set 'CollapseDelimiters' to false to get the behavior you want:

 >> C = strsplit('7,ABC,,22.6',',', 'CollapseDelimiters', false)

[Leon]

It works! Thank you so much for the quick help.