Importing a CSV with numbers and strings and blank space

I am trying to import a ".csv" file with some meta data at the start and than and than a lot of data. However one column of the data is a sting variable and the others are all numbers. I also need to have access to some of the meta data. The file attached is a small example version of the files I need to read.

Answer 1

[ahmed nebli]

u need to save the csv file as xls file and then use the function xlsread, it should work , use something like this: xlsread('your_file.csv');