MATLAB: Extracting character from an excel file

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 Hello everyone . Suppose i have an excel file (data.xlsx) , which contains the following data.
Name   age
Tom    43 
Dick   24
Harry  32
    Now i want to extract the data from it and make 2 cell array (or matrix) which will contain 
name = ['Tom' ; 'Dick';'Harry']
and age = [43;24;32] .
Please help me . how efficiently i obtain this . Thanks in advance

Best Answer

The simplest way, would probably be to use readtable and get your data as a table:
t = readtable('data.xlsx');
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