Best function for opening up .csv files as a matrix?

I'm using matlab 2012 and the function:

a = fopen('filename.csv');
b = textscan(a, '%s %s %s %s', 'delimiter', ',')

But the resulting matrix is a 1x4 cell with 101x1 matrixes inside of them. I was hoping for a 101x4 matrix since that would be easier to work with. Does the 2012 version of matlab not have a function for this?

All the best,

[Stephen23]

Is the data string or numeric?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Add 'CollectOutput',true to import them as one array:

a = fopen('filename.csv');
b = textscan(a, '%s %s %s %s', 'delimiter', ',', 'CollectOutput',true);

Answer 2

[Stephen23]

Use csvread