I tried Matlab's readtable on the examples from that post and it worked fine
Hi Linda,
If you follow that link there's a paragraph devoted to xlsread.
Alain
On 16 Aug 2014, at 07:32, Linda Seltzer <lseltzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "(see
> http://abandonmatlab.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/matlab-cant-read-plain-text-data-out-of-a-wet-paper-bag/
> for an enlighening rant)."
>
> Matlab can easily read .csv text files with the xlsread command.
>
> Matlab can read other lines of text exactly the way C language does, with
> sscanf.
>
> Linda Seltzer
> DSP Engineer - Consultant