importing an empty text column rather than a number column
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Afolabi Fashola
on 10 Aug 2020
Commented: Afolabi Fashola
on 14 Aug 2020
Hello,
I have a excel spreadsheet with 12 columns that I imported into MATLAB using readtable. The issue is there are two text columns which could sometimes be empty and sometimes not. Whenever its empty and i run the code MATLAB imports the table and replaces the empty cells with NAN showing its not a text column but i want it to be replaces with single qoutes (' ') instead because it is a text column.
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Stijn Haenen
on 10 Aug 2020
Use the num2str command and change every NaN to ' ':
Data=num2str(Data);
Data(Data=='NaN')=' ';
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J. Alex Lee
on 11 Aug 2020
Are you already using something like detectImportOptions() or spreadsheetImportOptions()? If not, look at that
And then look at setVarType().
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