Read a csv file???
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Dear all, in the first row of the matrix are 6 variable names (time, open, high, low, close, volume). The format of the data in the first column (time) is like this: 01.01.2004 01:00:00.000. The time is so complicated, because it is a high frequency data set of an exchange rate. In all other columns are exchange rates. Every entry is separated by a comma. When I use the Import Wizard of Matlab, it separates the data into two sets. In the first set (text file) are only the variable names and the whole column time and in the second data set are all exchange rates. How can I read in the csv-file correctly and as a whole? Thank you in advance!
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José-Luis
on 8 Jan 2013
How do you expect to convert the time to a number? I don't really understand how you want your data to look like. If you want a single matrix, then you can concatenate whatever it is that you obtain and save everything to a cell array.
per isakson
on 8 Jan 2013
I have answered similar questions a number of time here at Answer. I would use textscan.
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Matt J
on 8 Jan 2013
Edited: Matt J
on 8 Jan 2013
If you want date info and numeric info to co-exist in a matrix (not a cell array), you must first convert the date info into a numeric form, e.g., using the DATENUM command. Then concatenate them together as José-Luis recommends.
The example date you provided, for instance, could be converted as follows
>> datenum('01.01.2004 01:00:00.000','mm.dd.yyyy HH:MM:SS')
ans =
7.3195e+05
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