Reading csv files that have mixed string and numbers, with inconsistent columns and rows

I’m having difficulty loading a csv file that contains mixed string and number data, with inconsistent columns and rows. Can anyone help me out? Once the data is loaded into individual cells/arrays, I should be good to go. importdata() only seems to capture half of the data, and I haven't had much luck with textscan(), though maybe I am using it improperly. A simplified example of the data I am processing can be found below.

Thanks!

Example .csv file:

Name,Weight,,Notes about Weight

Matt,165,,

Jim,250,,Jim is 60 pounds overweight

John,170,,

Answer 1

[J. Webster]

I think the way I'd approach this is with something like the following.

fid = fopen('myfile.csv');

myline = fgetl(fid);
while ischar(myline)
    C = strsplit(myline,',')
    % C now contains a cell array for each line, maybe you can work with that?
    myline = fgetl(fid);
end

fclose(fid);

[Matt C]

Once I extended this code for my purposes, it worked beautifully. Thanks, J!