delimit cells to columns with strings and numeric values

Below is the code I'm running. It pulls in a text file that is delimited with a semicolon.

clc; clear;
filename = 'U0400_ALL_LOCS.txt';
delimiterIn = ';';
headerlinesIn = 1;
A = importdata(filename,delimiterIn); %,headerlinesIn);

The file is read into Matlab, but only sepeates rows, not columns. The picture below is of the variable A.

Any idea on how to get these to split into their respective columns?

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

Try using readtable() to read the text file

[Zachary Eichelberger]

Thanks for your help, that worked perfectly

filename = 'U0400_ALL_LOCS.txt';
A = readtable(filename)

Would you happen to know of good video that goes through the readtable documentation? I'm having trouble understanding the opts portion of using readtable.

[madhan ravi]

Anytime :)

see

https://www.mathworks.com/videos/introducing-tables-and-categorical-arrays-79924.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/examples.html?category=tables

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/detectimportoptions.html

[Zachary Eichelberger]

Thanks!