Scanning a CSV file

I want to read a CSV(Comma Separated Values) file in a text format and bring the entire data from CSV into Matlab environment

Answer 1

[Voss]

You could use readmatrix(), csvread(), xlsread(), textscan(), fread(), etc.

[Walter Roberson]

readmatrix() did not exist when the question was asked in 2011.

Note: load() would also have worked with that format, if it was all numeric without any header line.

[Voss]

I didn't realize answers were constrained to functions available at the time the question was asked.

[Walter Roberson]

The expectation is that replies will typically be appropriate to the version available to the poster, or else will be marked as requiring a newer version.

For example, "You could use csvread(), xlsread(), textscan(), fread(), etc. In new enough versions you could use readmatrix()"

[Voss]

I have no expectation that the poster will read the answer at all in this case.

I only listed readmatrix() first because it seems to be the latest preferred method; I've never had reason to use it myself.