How to skip last n rows while reading a csv file using readtable?

I have a csv file that I want to read as table in MATLAB using readtable command. However, I know that last few lines are corrupted or not reliable and I want to skip them. How can I do that using readtable. Note that a similar function is available in python's panda package for read.csv by supplying skipfooter.

 Accepted Answer

I was overthinking. It is very simple to do actually.
T= readtable(csvfile,'PreserveVariableNames',true);
n_skip = 5;
T = T(1:end-n_skip,:);

More Answers (1)

This way?
data_table=readtable('filename');
%want to remove n rows from last
n=;...?
data=data_table(1:end-n,:)

4 Comments

Yes, this is the solution. I did realize that I was overthinking. :)
How to skip first 20 rows in the csv file?
Could you please give some answer?
data_table = readtable('filenameGoesHere', 'HeaderLines', 20);

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