Loading CSV file into Octave

[guerrero]

*DATA:
*
Assume the following data format (with a header line in the first row, 500+
rows):

Number, Number, Number, String, String, Number, Number, Number, String,
Number, Number, Number

Example:
1,0,3,"Braund, Mr. Owen Harris",male,22,1,0,A/5 21171,7.25,C85,S


*MY CODE:
*
Ignoring the columns 4, 9, 11 and 12(index starting from 1).

[A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H] = textread("train.csv","%d %d %d %*q %s %d %d %d
%*s %*s %f %*s %*s","delimiter",",","endofline","\n","headerlines","1");


*THE ERROR:
*
error: invalid conversion from string to real scalar
error: fskipl: invalid number of lines specified
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.4/m/io/textread.m at line 71, column 5


I am new to octave and unable to understand the cause of the error. Please
guide.




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