How to import dates from excel files

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.

[Mitchell Thurston]

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]

Definitely looked hopeful, but this is what the first rows of my table were output as:

Answer 1

[Yusuf Suer Erdem]

Could you try like below?

filename = 'Bitcoin_Data_Lab_9.xlsx';
A = readcell(filename);
T = readtable(A)

[Matthew Urena]

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)