Multiple 'EndOfLine' readtable
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Hi all,
Does anybody know how to impose multiple 'EndOfLine' characters in 'readtable'.
My problem is namely that I'm trying to easily read a csv file (I like the readtable option), in which some lines end with a comma, and other don't.
Read table otherwise gives the error "Line 10 has 29 delimiters, while preceding lines have 28"
Thanks in advance.
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Guillaume
on 17 Sep 2019
Edited: Guillaume
on 17 Sep 2019
This has nothing to do with the EndOfLine character (which is typically not rendered when viewed in a text viewer).
As the error message tells you, the problem is with the number of delimiters. You can't do anything about that directly with readtable but you could construct a delimitedTextImportOptions object to use with readtable that should be able to cope with this.
Assuming that your file has a header line with the correct number of delimiters, the following would most likely work:
opts = detectImportOptions(yourfile);
opts.ExtraColumnsRule = 'ignore'; %ignore extra columns created by extra delimiters at the end of lines
data = readtable(yourfile, opts)
If it doesn't work, you may need to give more hints to the option object.
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