Why would column data not get synced when parsing a large csv file?

I am trying to parse a csv data file that is quite large - 870,000 rows and 30 columns. When I use the script below, my first column is parsed correctly, but the following column data is off by 8 to 10 rows. When I make smaller csv files from chunks of the original csv file the script works as intended. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

clear all
clc

Traj = open('C:\Pass_1_full_data.csv');

% Output traj file
fileName = 'C:\3rd_test_traj.csv';

for i=1:size(Traj.data,1)
    Traj.data(i,1) = i;
end

% Pass 1
startImg1 = 1;
endImg1   = startImg1 + 7200;

Rate      = 5; % secs as input data is at 1 Hz

TrajData1 = Traj.data(startImg1:Rate:endImg1,:);

fid = fopen(fileName, 'w') ;
fprintf(fid, '%s, ', Traj.textdata{1,1:end-1}) ;
fprintf(fid, '%s\n', Traj.textdata{1,end}) ;
fclose(fid) ;

dlmwrite(fileName, Data1(1:end,:), 'precision' , 10 , '-append') ;

fclose('all');

[Walter Roberson]

You are using a side effect of open() that for csv files it happens to call importdata. importdata processes files in ways that can be difficult to predict unless you know the structure of the entire file.

I would recommend that you switch to readtable() or textscan()

[Ronney Lovelace]

Thank you for the advice!