I'm trying to download this comma separated info and save it so that it can be stored as a matrix which can then be accessed. So far I have code which I think should store the info in a file called test.csv but im not sure:
>> urlwrite('http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~weather/jcmb_ws/JCMB_2013_Mar.csv','test.csv');
d = csvread('test.csv');
??? Error using ==> dlmread at 145
Mismatch between file and format string.
Trouble reading number from file (row 1, field 1) ==> date-
Error in ==> csvread at 50
m=dlmread(filename, ',', r, c);
I am getting the above error. It reads the data fine using urlread. Does anybody know what the correct syntax should be and how I can get it stored as a matrix? Thanks in advance.
Try using readtext.m. That is a program which can read almost any text file. The problem in your data could be: they don't have uniform delimiters i.e. somewhere two columns are separated by tab, somewhere by comma.
The operation can be performed like this:
urlwrite('http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~weather/jcmb_ws/JCMB_2013_Mar.csv','test.csv');
data= readtext('test.csv');
It should work.