Can a format string be supplied to detectImportOptions?

I'm importing data from a text file and I'd like to do something like the following:

opts = detectImportOptions(filePath,'FileType','Text');
% manually change a couple of options
opts.DataLine = numHeaderLines + 1;
opts.Delimiter = {','};
% import
thisFile = readtable(filePath,opts,'Format','%{dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS}D%s%d');

However, I can't use the 'Format' Name-Value pair when passing opts to readtable as an argument. Is there any way to supply a format string in this situation?

Answer 1

[dpb]

Use setvaropts to control properties associated with particular variables; specifically the DatetimeVariableImportOptions properties for datetime data.