Get MatLAB to read data instead of text

I have some data in Excel that I'm trying to import into MatLAB. The imported file works fine, except MatLAB is recognizing the first colum as text instead of data. Essentially, MatLAB skips the first column of data and goes right to the second because it thinks the first column is text. This has really screwed up my code/data plots... Does anyone know how to get MatLAB to read text as data?

Answer 1

[David Hill]

Try readtable

t=readtable('yourFile.csv');

[Walter Roberson]

readmatrix instead of readable if you want to force the first column to numeric. Or else fiddle with import options.

Or possibly the situation calls for HeaderLines