title: How to convert a string to a table with `textscan`?
body: <p>I'm using matlab to read in <a href="https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_19-covid-Confirmed.csv" rel="nofollow noreferrer">COVID-19 data</a> provided by Johns Hopkins as a <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_19-covid-Confirmed.csv" rel="nofollow noreferrer">.csv-file</a> using <code>urlread</code>, but I'm not sure how to use <code>textscan</code> in the next step in order to convert the string into a table. The first two columns of the .csv-file are strings specifying the region, followed by a large number of columns containing the registered number of infections by date. </p>
  
  <p>Currently, I just save the string returned by <code>urlread</code> locally and open this file with <code>importdata</code> afterwards, but surely there should be a more elegant solution.</p>