How do you allow a user to input a .csv file?

What command is used to allow a user to input a .csv file, also how is the command formatted? Many thanks!

[KL]

what do you mean by "allow a user"? do you want to have a gui dialog box?

[Rochollywood]

not necessarily, I believe it needs to be input through the command window

Answer 1

[KL]

If you want to import data from this file,

data = csvread('yourfilename.csv')

if you want user to pick the file using a dialog box, then

[fileName, pathName] = uigetfile('*.csv');
data = csvread(fullfile(pathName,fileName)) ;

[Rochollywood]

That is closer, but what if I don't know the path, or the file name the user wants to input?

[KL]

That's exactly what the second suggestion does. It lets the user browse through his folders to select a csv file.

[Walter Roberson]

Note that we recommend against using a variable named "path", as "path" is the name that MATLAB uses to manage how to find files.

[KL]

Thanks for pointing it out Walter, I edited the answer.