Matlab: read only header line from a .csv-file

Question

Assume there\'s a myfile.csv with variable names in the first row and decimal numbers in the following ones. In Matlab I\'d like to read the header line and the decimal numbers

Answer 1

To extract the first line, you just need

fid = fopen('myfile.csv');
a = textscan(fid,'%s',1);
fclose(fid);