Readtable() confused by quotation marks? Matlab 2019a

Hello.

When executing

t = readtable('myfile.txt','FileType','text','Delimiter','|');

I am receiving this error

Error using readtable (line 216)
Reading failed at line 52223. All lines of a text
file must have the same number of delimiters. Line
52223 has 5 delimiters, while preceding lines have 9.

Note: readtable detected the following parameters:
'HeaderLines', 0, 'ReadVariableNames', false,
'Format', '%f%q%f%f%f%q%q%f%f%f'

I confirmed that the error is thrown, not because of the delimiters but because of a quotation mark. I confirmed this by removing the quotation marks from the file. Is there a way around this without altering the file itself?

Thank You,

Michael

[xi]

Could you attatch the text file?

Answer 1

[Jeremy Hughes]

opts = detectImportOptions('myfile.txt','FileType','text','Delimiter','|')
T = readtable('myfile.txt',opts)

Answer 2

[Michael]

That worked. Thanks.