Column Headers from Imported Data

When importing Data from an ASCII file, it only saves one row of text for the column headers but I would like it to save two rows of text as column headers. Both are tab delimited. How do I import the file with two rows of Column Headers?

[Bhaskar R]

No text file attatched.

Have you tried the MATLAB command ?

importdata

[Jonathan Rua]

Yes. That was the command I was using but the tab delimiter only works on the row above the data and not two rows above. I found that if I use the command:

readtable

then it will use the delimiter on that row but I have yet to see if it works for what I want.

[Star Strider]

In readtable, under Text Files Only, see the 'HeaderLines' name-value pair. (Cannot link directly to it.)

Answer 1

[Subhadeep Koley]

Hi, refer the example below.

filename = fullfile(matlabroot,'examples','matlab','myCsvTable.dat');
n = 2; % Number of rows to be skipped at the beginning
T = readtable(filename,'HeaderLines',n);

Hope this helps!