questions about CSVREAD when import data into MATLAB

I am now using CSVREAD to import csv datas ,some of the datas are as follows The first line of CSV is head line and my matlab scrip is

m11=csvread('SPC.csv',2,0);
However sometimes, MATLAB terminate with errors saying "
Error using dlmread (line 139)
Empty format string is not supported at the end of a
file.

Error in csvread (line 48) m=dlmread(filename, ',', r, c);

Error in MAIN_WB_DYNA_ANASIS (line 68) af=csvread('DISNODE.csv',2,0);

time,114059,
0,0,
0.00096509,-6.4337e-011,
0.00193018,-8.5843e-010,
0.0029757,-4.1747e-009,
0.00394079,-1.1399e-008,
0.0049863,-2.5976e-008,
0.00595139,-4.7814e-008,
0.0069969,-8.3311e-008,
0.00796199,-1.2971e-007,
0.00892709,-1.9175e-007,
0.0099726,-2.7931e-007,
0.0109377,-3.8154e-007,
0.0119832,-5.1866e-007,
0.0129483,-6.7264e-007,

[Image Analyst]

You forgot to attach the csv file.

Answer 1

[dpb]

... The first line of CSV is head line ...

Per the help file for csvread,

M = csvread('FILENAME') reads a comma separated value formatted file
  FILENAME.  The result is returned in M.  The file can only contain
  numeric values.

Note the last sentence above--if there's a header line, you can't use csvread (or dlmread, either, as you can observe from the error message that the former is just a wrapper around the latter.

Use importdata or textscan or even textread instead...

importdata will automagically try to determine the number of header line(s); use the 'headerline' named argument in the textXXX routines.

Answer 2

[Matthew Fricke]

You probably have a blank line at the end of your input file or your input file uses a newline character from a different operating system such as OS X or Windows. The way you skip the headers by beginning the read on line 2 should work fine.