How to import dates from excel files

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Matthew Urena
Matthew Urena on 8 Dec 2021
Edited: Matthew Urena on 9 Dec 2021
Upon running the following code:
filename = 'Bitcoin_Data_Lab_9.xlsx';
A = xlsread(filename);
T = readtable(filename)
The outputs are similar to the spreashseet but not identical. A has completely deleted the dates column and only shows the numerical ones, while T has every column but every date which was in the dates column is now NaN (my dates are formatted as (mm/dd/yyyy). How can I make it so that the dates are displayed (preferably with xlsread but either function is acceptable).
For reference, the excel file is attached above.
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Mitchell Thurston
Mitchell Thurston on 8 Dec 2021
my guess is you're going to want to interpret the dates column as a string. going off of this, it would be something like
opts = detectImportOptions(filename);
opts = setvartype(opts, 'Dates','string');
T = readtable(filename, opts)
Matthew Urena
Matthew Urena on 8 Dec 2021
Definitely looked hopeful, but this is what the first rows of my table were output as:

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Yusuf Suer Erdem
Yusuf Suer Erdem on 8 Dec 2021
Could you try like below?
filename = 'Bitcoin_Data_Lab_9.xlsx';
A = readcell(filename);
T = readtable(A)
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Matthew Urena
Matthew Urena on 8 Dec 2021
After running this, I am met with the following error messages:
Error using readtable (line 198)
File input must be a non-empty character vector or string scalar.
Error in Untitled (line 4)
T = readtable(A)

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