I try to load a csv file in matlab to use a certain column as a vector for a OLS estimation. However, my csv looks like: 

   Date            KCFSI
13  2004-02-01  -0.67
14  2004-03-01  -0.58
15  2004-04-01  -0.57
16  2004-05-01  -0.49
17  2004-06-01  -0.67
... 

and I want to have the the column KCFSI as a vector.

I tried: 

x=fopen('kcfsi.csv'); kcfsi=x(:,2);

But I don't even get a matrix for my x. Just get as value : "14" for whatever reason. I want to have something like "2x100" 

Answers: 

csvread cannot open csv files containing non-Numeric values as stated in the documentation.

The file must contain only numeric values.

So you should use textscan as explained in this answer : https://stackoverflow.com/a/19613301/11756186

Alternatively you can use the readtable built-in function 

csvtable = readtable('kcfsi.csv'); kcfsi_array = csvtable.KCFSI; %Column vector with the content of the KCFSI column